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Mr. C. C. Reade presented some illustrations of Australian plants, and 
Prince Roland Bonaparte a set of his publications. 
Specimens of Dipterocarpus, Lauraceae and Sapotaceae were loaned to 
the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, and have been returned named. 
Library .—The arrears of binding have been overtaken, and the special 
vote for the purpose exhausted. 
At the end of the year the Director of the Raffles Museum asked if the 
Gardens would receive and house on indefinite loan certain botanic works; 
and this was agreed to. 
The library with them contains about 4,000 volumes. 
BOTANIC GARDENS, SINGAPORE. 
Two parts of the Lower Ring Road which had become too narrow for 
their increased traffic were widened by two feet; and in doing this an ugly 
elbow which disfigured the avenue of Red-stemmed palms, was obliterated. 
Close to this road the Tea-kiosk mentioned above, has been placed. It was 
leased out from November. 
The bands of the Surrey and of their successors the Sussex, regiments 
played regularly in the Gardens. 
. The orchid-propagating houss, mentioned in the last report, as under 
construction, was completed. The condition of the orchids is improved by 
transfer to it. 
The filling of the Cluny Lake was finished, and the laying out of its area 
commenced. A thicket to the west of it which concealed a rubbish pit, was 
cleared away and the ground smoothed and turfed. Planting was extended 
beyond it over lawn Z, and the path across lawn Z carried forward through 
the trees which border Gallop road as far as lawn R. Palms are being planted 
among these trees. 
Part of lawn E was smoothed and the foundations of an old rectangular 
building of unknown use removed from under the turf. 
One of the largest trees in the Gardens, a Shore a parvifolia, No. 634, 
died, probably struck by lightning. Another of the very iarge tree of Shorca 
is badly attacked by Fomes tricolor , and is doomed. In December the 
monkeys apparently finding food scarce, did considerable damage to slender 
palms of the genus Ptyehosperma by eating out the small cabbage. 
The plants and packets of seeds sent out were— 
Plants. 
Ornamental plants ... ... 12,115 
Economic plants ... ... 1,454 
Two Wardian cases full of plants were taken to Kew 
hi March, and a third by Mr. Flippance in November. 
WATERFALL GARDENS, PENANG. 
An increased attention to the lawns, and an increase in the number of 
men employed in sweeping and similar operations, has improved the appear¬ 
ance of the Gardens. Unfortunately in the year under review this had to 
be done at the cost of other work : but it is provided for otherwise in the* ' 
current year. 
The land just outside the Gate, leased by the kindness of the Municipality 
to the Gardens at a nominal rent, has been made tidy; and as the Government 
permits planting upon the land facing it, an avenue is to be created leading 
up to the Gardens gate. 
Seed. 
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