space for Greater Singapore. If the site should he put to 
other purposes, the Department should be compensated by MMMft: 
other land for experimental work, and Singapore compensated 
by securing that the suggestions set forward in the report 
of Mr. Pigott*s Committee shall come to pass ultimately. 
The land for experimental purposes need not be in Singapore 
island which has a had fruit climate and inferior soil; 
indeed should it he necessary to st^rt planting de novo, MMM 
Malacca, or Province Wellesley are preferable; and I have 
been turning over the toos si bill ties of finding what is 
required in one of these nlacr-s. T would beg to be allowed 
to ask now if the Government will reach a decision either 
to leave the Economic Garden as It is for at least twenty 
§ 
years or start an Economic Garden upon a liberal scale 
elsewhere, remembering that I have many plants of value 
wftich cannot live in pots for ever, and that deferring 
issues is damaging, as te the value thrown away when des¬ 
truction comes is the greater the older the trees destroyed. 
Annually revised ple.B3 and perennial trees do not step ir. 
harness together: and security which I have failed to get, 
is absolutely necessary for the proper carrying out of the/ 
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side of my work which is far more important than attracting 
the Public to learn n little botany in a pleasant place or 
to gain a little health nemeljp the getting of.the best races 
of all manner o r nlants into these Settlements. 
I have the honour to be 
Sir/ 
Your obedient Servant 
Director of Gardens 
The Honourable 
The Colonial Secretary 
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ingapore 
