period of year*. Against this break I hare beer able to 
siake some provision by planting a few new tree* during the 
last few ^Tn area Z.: but it ia not much, and new land i» 
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required for further planting. 
b) the eelection of fruit tree#, for which purpose ''M'O 
trees hare been planted^ uring the last few years. Th •qf'Xtur 
trees^are young end mynt i f not yet altogether * beyond 
transplanting. If new land be made available at once the 
lose oSU them need not be such more than one years 
growth due to the heavy cutting back that we shall have to 
do to move them. 
c) the earing of the valuable rubber trees 27 and 610. 
For this purpose grove of seedlings - has been raised 
th - t they may be grafted with grafts from the good trees 
and an officer of the MW . Department of Agriculture is in 
Singapore to do the grafting 
d^ a trial of many plant* treated a* annukls* These are 
eaev to transfer* 
%\ the finding of an ideal stock onto which to graft tie 
mangosteen* This work seems certain of interru p tion as the 
saving of the collection of G arcinias appears 
impossible* . 
C k t with the idea of a removal of the Economic Garden 
beiaa forced on me, for some three years I have been 
seeking alternative sites, unT’ through the Settlements I hare 
found /bnly^ ekhat I~ need /in the Province "elleslay. The 
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land is part of a forest reserve^/ it carries no buildings, 
jhe preoent complete staff of the Economic Garden would 
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need to be removed to it, buildings^erected 
As the Government is taking from the "ardens land valued iat 
it ought to be generous in starting a new 
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