last few years In area Z. but it is not much, and new land is 
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require* for further planting. 
h.) the selection of fruit tree*, for which purpose 650 
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trees have been planted mostly during the last few years. The 
new trees which are young are not yet altogether beyond trans- 
planting. If new land be made available at once the loss on them 
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need not be much more than one years growth due to the heavy 
cutting back that we shall have to do to move them, 
c, ) the saving of the valuable trees 27 and 610* Por this 
purpose a grove of seedlings has been raised that they may be 
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grafted with grafts from the good trees and an officer of the 
Department of Agriculture is in Singapore to do the grafting 
d, ) a trial of many plants treated as annuals. These are easy 
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to transfer, 
e, ) the finding of an Ideal stock onto which to graft the 
mangosteen. This work seems certein of Interruption as the saving 
of the collection of Garciniae got together for use appears 
ingposfiible, 
6, With the idea that a removal of the Economic Garden 
would be forced on me, for some three years X have been seeking 
alternative sites, but through the settlements I have found 
what^need only in the Province Wellesley, The land is part of a 
forest W1IMMMW reserve; and as it carries no buildings and the 
present couple to staff of the Economic Garden would need to be 
removed to it, buildings will have to be intMimH erected. As 
the Government is taking from the Gardens land valued at a high 
figure, it ought to be generous in starting a new station , 
