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Botanists whereunder other workers have exchanged the results of their 
work. 
Mr. Furtado has also made an inventory of the 1,099 named drawings 
in the collection, the determination of the others will gradually follow. 
BOTANIC GARDENS, SINGAPORE. 
Offences against the by-laws are common: they are rarely important 
enough to warrant prosecution; and only one summons was taken during 
the year Instead offenders are cautioned and a record of the caution 
made for reference. That they are commoner than is usually supposed 
inay be illustrated by recording that in one twenty-four hours m the month 
of September, the Director himself dealt with five each under a different 
by-law. They are certainly more common than they would be n the 
Gardens did not possess so conspicuously the features of an open place. 
Two changes were made in the footpaths; that on the east side of the 
Palm valley and that on the east side of the Bandstand hill being closed. 
Two considerable improvements were made in the roadside drainage. 
one preventing flooding of the low'er part of the Palm valley road, and t le 
other of the Lake-side path. Open cement drains weie constructed 
* through the lower nursery. New drain pipes were laid under Lawn L, 
and at the suggestion and with the help of Dr. P. S. Hunter around the 
large beds of Cannas an Lawn A. 
In March a thick layer of coral was put under the soil of the terraces 
of the Sun-rockery, the soil enriched and the succulents brought from ICew 
in 1923 planted, They are doing remarkably well. 
Of plants 8,171 were sent out, and of seed 101 packets. 
Pests.—Syllepta derogata, a moth, was identified as the cause oi dis¬ 
figurement in Hibiscus bushes, the foliage -being rolled and eaten. The 
insect which is a perpetual source of annoyance 03* eating the leaves of 
Warssewiczia coccinea, was found to be a Melolonthid beetle of the genus 
Apogonia. Phenacoccus iceryoides , the Rain-tree coccid, an importation of 
recent years from Southern India, reached the Gardens through the town; 
but in the absence of young Rain-trees has not done much damage. It has 
been impossible to import its parasites, as tbc entomologists of southern 
India do not know them. The entomologists of northern India know of 
parasites destructive to a closely allied coccid; and Dr. Bainbrigge Fletcher 
was willing to undertake the trouble of isolating them from hyperparasites 
that he might be able to send them to Singapore: but £he Gardens Depart¬ 
ment is not staffed for the experimenting that the trial would demand, and 
the kind offer had to be declined. 
Mention was made in an earlier Report that galls had been sent to 
Dr. Docters van Leeuwen, Director of the Botanic Gardens Buitenzorg. 
On these and on collections of his own made upon a visit, he has reported 
in a paper published in the Bulletin du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg, 
ser. 3 vol. 6. 
WATERFALL GARDENS, PENANG. 
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The greatest change that has been made in 1924, in the Waterfall 
Gardens, was brought about by the removal of the Water-lily pond and by the 
drainage of the hollow where it was. The pond had silted up considerably 
and was difficult to keep tidy. Cannas are to be planted in its place. The 
hollow under the Municipal Reservoir was drained likewise. 
The rockery in the centre of Plant-house No. 3, has heen re-shaped. 
Plant-house No. 1 has been re-roofed with ataps and bertams. Plant-house 
No. 2 has been covered with wire-netting that creepers may be grown 
over it. 
