vhetplace. There the merchant could go and see standards of absolute 
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.purity of any article he wished to buy,he should be able to learn ever 
- thing about it,where it comes from,the amount produced the ruling pric 
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and in short everything there is to know about it. Now this could only 
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' be done,by being in close contact with the Parent Institute at home. 
In this connection I would like to point out in passing the 
possibilities of the new experimental Gardens about to be formed in 
Selangor. It is well in this initial stage that the object of those 
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gardens should be kept well in view. The first object of their exis- 
tence is to afford,exact and definite data,all idea of land-cape ef¬ 
fect must give way to the rigid requirements of careful experiments. $ 
To illustrate my meaning,the Garden should be divided into a certain 
number of square or parallelograms of a definite area,then the arrange 
-ments should be such,that,the various plants producing,Resins,Oils, 
drugs,fibres, dyes,food plants,Medicinal Plants etc etc or in other we** 
words the trade Products of the Colony,should be arranged togeter, 
where they could be easily compared,but the point of special imporfanc 
is .to get exact and definite data,for example say take any dye stuff, g 
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Gambir,Indigo,or any other,a certain block of say one two or three acr 
is dsvhted to its cultivation first comes cost of preparing ground 2nd 
cost of plants if any cost of cultivation such as weeding,manuring etc 
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length of time for crop to ripen,cost of harwesting,sale of crop,state 
-ment of profit and loss on the experiment. This system should be adop 
-ted with everything taken up and here it will be seen the close con- 
nection,between the garden and the Commercial Museum they should supp¬ 
lement and be the complement of each other the one by the growing shew 
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-ing cost of production etc 
