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The plantains imported from Manila began to fruit, proving our best 
races also theirs. 
Experiments with garden vegetables were continued, particularly with 
lettuces. Carrots grew unexpectedly well. 
The Government’s decision to build the Raffles Memorial College in 
the Economic Garden overlies everything connected with it. The attempt 
is being made to propagate in any possible way the good plants that are 
in it; and an application has been made for permission to transfer them to 
a new site. 
Of economic plants 1,532 were sent out in 1921 and of seed 202 packets. 
Waterfall Gardens, Penang*. 
Mention has been made above of the cut in wages which enabled extra 
labour to be employed; it permitted the employment of about eight men 
beyond the average of previous years, with the help of a small sum transferred 
from a Singapore vote. The work of four of these men went into the 
restoration of the Fern-Rockery, and of three into better mowing. The 
amount of sweeping was increased towards the end of the year. 
The Fern-Rockery is now again well on the way to becoming the beauty 
spot that it was. 
At the top of the Swimming-bath gully a rustic bridge has been built 
and rockeries made at the ends of it with flowering plants on them. Additional 
flower-beds have been dug around the Bandstand hill. The nursery was 
partially overhauled; and shrubs were planted on the big bank over the 
entrance gate. 
The lower roads were coated with Tarco. Many of the old Pandans 
were removed from the upper part of the Gardens. The Eucalypts perish 
one by one, and another was lost. The hill-top where the bungalow once 
stood, was partially cleared and vistas cut towards the Waterfall and towards 
the island of Pulau Jerejak. 
Xylopia Curtisii flowered in the Gardens, and so did Hydrangea Hortensia. 
1 he Municipal Commissioners hi November consented to let, at a nominal 
rental, to the Gardens the block of land at the Gardens’ gate wdiereon was 
the ATgetable Farm. As soon as possible it will be brought into a tidy 
condition, the better to preserve the amcenities of the place. The part near 
the road will be planted with ornamental shrubs; and the part at the back used 
as a nursery. 
The cataloguing of the plants in the Gardens is in progress, Mr. Haniff 
being responsible for numbering the trees and for collecting material for 
the purpose of determination or authentication. 
There were sent out 2,626 plants and 163 packets of seed, which is a 
slight increase on 1920, but less than in the years before. 
Government House Domain. 
After trying in vain all sorts of expedients to stop tresspass over the 
grass in the Domain, a watchman was engaged in October. It will be 
necessary to retain him permanently. 
. A motor mower was put into use; but it cannot yet be regarded as a 
success. The rubber plantation within the Domain towards the Municipal 
Filter-beds was removed, and many trees of Poinciana regia planted among 
the remaining tembusu trees. The golf course was diverted towards that 
side, and the area brought into a better condition. New beds w'ere dug 
on the upper lawns, and filled with Cannas. Several trees were removed 
having grown too big for their places, and some were lost by storms, notably 
in the south-west corner by Kramat Road, where it is necessary to raise up 
a fresh screen against certain very ugly buildings. 
6 th July , 1922. [No. 5495/22.] 
I. HENRY BURKILL, 
Director of Gardens. S. S. 
