in work and the record of it. To shew the need of skill care 
and accuracy in detail I would draw attention to the follow¬ 
ing passages in Brown 1 © modern Propagation of Fruit Trees (see 
Mr. Burkill's minute of 12.5.22) 
page 5$ Budding Operations 
* 74 Selecting Buds 
* 147 Office Routine 
6. If Mr. 4irkill , s scheme includes continous supervisi*- 
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of this high order I support it. I thikk there is great and 
valuable work to oe done in improving the varieties of the 
local fruits and so far nothing as far as I know has been 
accomplished in the "Peninsula. The Malay grows fruit (or 
allows it to grow: he gives it little attention); with 
d exacts t rati on© of better cultural methods and distribution of 
better stock he will get a better retuwn and he my gradually 
be educated up t© a point where we sahll bee more and better 
Malayan fruits on the market and retain in this country 
capital which now goes out of it to buy fruit in China.. 
7. But 1 strongly urge as a preliminary to opening new 
Economic Gardens be clearly laid down in a special paper, be 
notified in the G&sette, be* kept on record in the Gardens and 
appear as a heading to every annual report on them . 
That object should be pursued unswervingly. 
3d. A.S.Haynes 
