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PLANTS INWARDS AND OUTWARDS. 
The following - plants and seeds were sold, sent as exchanges or otherwise 
distributed: — • 
From Singapore .— 
Plants ... 
Tubers and bulbs ... 
Cuttings 
Seeds 
3AI9 
4,426 
3.401 
1,056 packets. 
From Penang .— 
Plants 
Seeds 
2-993 
152 packets. 
The following plants were received: 
Singapore .— 
Plants ... 
Tubers and bulbs ... 
Cuttings 
Seeds 
1,586 
219 
532 packets. 
8 
Penang .— 
Plants 
Seeds 
852 
260 packets. 
The Director brought out two cases of plants from the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, when returning from leave in July, in continuation of exchange of 
plants with Kew. Thanks are due to the following for the gift of plants or 
seeds:— 
Mrs. Starr (orchids from Burma and Siam), Mr. C. E. Carr, 
Mr. J. N. Milsum, Phya Pradibadha Bhubal (Consul-General for Siam). 
Mr. C. E. Lane Pooi.e, Professor Juan Balme (Mexico), Dr. G. E. 
Brooke, Mr. B. K. Saheb; Messrs. Vincke, Dujardin (Bruges), and to 
the followung institutions : — 
The Botanic Gardens at Kew, Eala (Belgian Congo), Bombay, and 
Darjeeling; the Department of Agriculture Jamaica; the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture; the Director of Agriculture, Rabaul, 
New Guinea; the Director, Horticultural Section, Giza, Egypt. 
BOTANIC GARDENS, SINGAPORE 
The weather w T as unusually wet during the earlier part of the year (January 
18-32 ins., February 10-97 ins., March 16-80 ins.) resulting in a general lack 
of flowering of trees; June, July and August were rather dry, but not exces¬ 
sively so. There w r as a fairly general flowering from September onwards, 
followed by a good fruit crop about the close of the year. 
More than one hundred woody plants and palms were planted out in the 
Gardens during the year, many being recent introductions. Most of these 
are growing well, but several species of Cocos are not flourisihing and some 
have died. Among the plants newly put out are Scheelia insignis , Scheclia 
regia, Actinophlceus augustifolia, A. prcemorsus, Musa discolor , M. rosea , 
Lecythis ol!aria, Lecythis pisonia, Copaifera officinalis , Albfasia ealcnsis , 
Acacia catechu, Chloroxylon Swietenia , Bassia Hollrungi, Tetraplenra 
Thonningii , Pachira aquatic a, Pavetta ahyssinica, Mcesopsis berchemoides , 
Clerodendron ugandense. 
Standard plants of Hibiscus raised from hybrid seed obtained from 
Honolulu were planted out along the main gate Road, and have begun to 
flower. It is intended to add to these and form a representative Hibiscus 
collection in the area. 
