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44. In the Bukit Timah and Kranji Reserves, where staff has been 
employed for many years, the reserves have remained inviolate. In other 
reserves where staff is not available, some clandestine cutting goes on. Prior 
to 1954 there had been only one meeting of the trustees, but during the year 
meetings were held on the 26th February and 15th November. It is now 
proposed that meetings should be held quarterly. 
XI. SINGAPORE GARDENING SOCIETY 
45. The Department was largely responsible for the formation of the 
Singapore Gardening Society in 1936, and Professor Holttum was President 
for many years. Mr. Ewart, the Curator of Gardens, is President for the year 
1954/55. Meetings are held monthly, often in the Botanic Gardens, where 
demonstrations of practical horticulture are given. The Society has 238 mem¬ 
bers and is flourishing. The average attendance at meetings was 64. It staged 
its sixth post-war Flower Show on 2nd-4th April, which was held at the 
Happy World Stadium. It was most successful, with 536 entries, and a high 
standard of exhibits was maintained. Mr. Ewart was show-manager and Mr. 
Alphonso was assistant manager. A large non-competitive group of orchids 
was exhibited by the Gardens, while tulips, hyacinths and lilacs from Holland 
and orchids from England were displayed in a cool house erected for the 
purpose. 
XII. VISITORS 
46. Professor Dr. C. G. G. J. van Steenis, General Editor of the Flora 
Malesiana, visited the Gardens in January and was accompanied by Mr. 
Henderson on a tour of some of the interesting botanical areas in the Fede¬ 
ration of Malaya. Other notable visitors included Sir Roland Robinson, M.P., 
all the delegates and observers attending the F.A.O. Plant Protection Con¬ 
ference held in Singapore in December, and Mr. C. V. Jacks, Director of 
the Commonwealth Bureau of Soil Science. 
XIII. PUBLICATIONS 
47. The sixth small volume in the series Malayan Garden Plants was 
published during the year, while volume 11 was reprinted. The Gardens’ 
Bulletin, Vol. XIV, Part 2, was handed in for publication early in the year, 
but did not come out until February 1955. Messrs. Addison and Henderson 
continued their work on the illustrated book of Malayan Orchid Hybrids, 
which it is hoped will be published in 1955. 
48. The articles and other works that were published during the year 
were as follows: — 
Addison, G. H.; Henderson, M. R.— New Hybrids from Singapore. Orchid 
Journal III, 4, 1954. 
Henderson, M. R. — Malayan Wild Flowers—Monocotyledons. Malayan Nature 
Society, Kuala Lumpur. 
Henderson, M. R.— Malayan Garden Plants, Vol. V/ — Ten Herbaceous Plants — 
Government Printer, Singapore. 
