the Gardens 1 quarters; and I have had to ask for 
the retention toy the 
Gardens of 
an 
area 
of 10 i 
acres to carry 
tlvma , 
My letter 
dated 
5th June, 
1919 
asking this is 
before 
you. 
Between the 
swampy 
part and 
the 
part 
wanted 
for 
quarters are the forty-three acres which I assume 
will toe sold for building, I have marked them in 
yellow upon the map attached. They carry the Gardens 
arboretum of economic trees and the area which 
has been terra ced and dedicated to fruit tree 
selection under proposals which have had His 
Excellence 1 the Governors sanction, 
I am now asking for funds to get to work upon 
a new area in replacement of this, an area to toe 
planted as an orchard, with no embellishments of 
landscape gardening such as ware introduced into the 
4 
Artooretunm of the Economic Garden to draw the visitor 
3, I find that I can have without the cost of 
purchase either thirty acres of Municipal land along 
the Seletar M$£la Road, upon the e|fi^e 
Catchment area, tout not wihin it, or a field at 
Bukit Timah near the Quarry partly planted with Gutta 
x aban and Hevea, I should need for either in their 
first year 
Foreman* e quarter .. say $2000 
Cooly lines . 2000 
~abour .. 6430 
■i 
Tools . 2592 
12072 
say 12000 
7FilX you allow this to be put down uoon the 
Budget estimates 
for 
1920 
9 
i 
If so 
my 
nl ans 
for 
abandoning the 
old 
Economi c 
Garden 
will be 
as 
complete as I 
can 
make 
them, and 
I 
shall 
be 
