6 
was thinned; and an old footpath reopened from it to the site of the aban¬ 
doned Gardens' bungalow whence there is a good view. It is a practice to 
plant palms that have become too large to retain in the plant-houses and 
other woody plants as available near this footpath. The Swimming Bath 
gully is an ideal Aroid garden. 
The r*. Latania Commersonii and Attalca Cohune, flowered but did 
not fruit, Latanias were given to the Gardens in 1911 by Mr. Logan and 
were a few years old then. Dichopsis Gictta, the gutta taban, fruited at the 
age of 21 years. Among orchids a Spathoglottis ,, got by Mr. Haniff on 
Kedah Peak, proved on flowering to be S. affinis which is new to the Peninsula. 
A curious and probably, new Habenaria from Champawn also flowered. 
Hydrangeas which had long remained flowerless in Singapore after having 
been sent to Penang flowered, but not conspicuously. 
During the year 2,270 plants were sent out, and 426 packets of seed. 
Labour was utilised as follows:-—for pot-plants at the rate of 9.24 men 
per diem; on lawns 6.69; on trees 2.25; on sweeping 1.92; on bedding 
2.75; on roads 8.37; on nurseries 2.05; on rockeries 0.33; on lakes and 
on drainage work 0.64; on the repair of the plant houses including repainting 
0.94; on work upon the stream bank 0.50; and miscellaneous 0.31. 
Government House Domain. 
Labour upon the Government House Domain was thus distributed; — 
on the lawns at the rate of 13.33 tnen per diem; on bedding 7.99; in nurseries 
3.99; on pot-plants 3.29; in house-decoration 0.85; for hedging and tree¬ 
cutting 2.81; for sweeping and cleaning 4.08; for-shrubberies 1.92; at the 
Colonial Secretary’s house for all manner of work 4.25; and at the Private 
Secretary’s house 1.86. 
Miscellaneou«- 
The Sub-Inspector of Agriculture, under an arrangement with the Direc¬ 
tor of Agriculture, continues to report weekly at the Gardens. 
The acting Director visited Penang and Kuala Lipis to advise in connec¬ 
tion with the laying out of the grounds of the Crag Hotel and of the then- 
proposed Residency at Kuala Lipis. 
Botanic Gardens, 
Singapore, 6 th May , 1921. [No. 4606/21.] 
I. HENRY BURKILL, 
Director of Gardens, S. S. 
