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6th April.
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FENANG GARDENS.
to give some accodel of his history. Mr. Char- les Curtis was born in 1854 and was employed at Mesars. Veitch's nurseries at Chelsea in 1874. MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON THEIR ABOLITION.
Four years later, he was selected by the firm to ME. H. N. Ridley, Detector of Gardens, con- go to the Kast on an important mission in tributes to the March number of the Agricul|usarch of plants for cultivation.” His first trip tural Bulletin a very interesting article on the was to Mauritius and Madagascar, whence ba abolition of the Botanic Gardens of Penang, sent home the handsome pitcher plant, Nepen He writes
thes madagascariensis, and quantities of the Nothing lasts for very long in this world, | beautiful,Angricams of that country. After and perhaps in the. East changes and dis- a year ha retorand to England, and was sent appearances are more frequent than elsewhere, in 1880, to the Malay Archipelago, where he Still we must view many of these' with regret, explored Borno, Sumatra, Java and the and this feeling will be felt by all horticulturists Moluccas and sent bome very many grand and admirem of the beautiful in all parts of the novelties The main object of this expodi- world on learning of the abolition of the world: tion was to obtain the fine pitcher plant famed Gardens of Penang, which, on the retira Nepenthes Northiana, only known at that ment of Mr. Fax, who has occupied the post of Lime from a drawing by Miss North. Its actual. superintendent of the Gardens since the babitat was unknown till after much search. retirement of Mr. Curtis in 1903, will be Mr. Curtis rediscovered it in Borneo and, suc-. handed over to the blunicipality to convert cessfully introduced it into cultivation. After into a reservoir..
sanding home his collections he went to Pon- tianak in search of Phalaenopsis violacea, then very rare in England, but after collecting for a month he had a mishap with a boat, and lost all
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The Gardens, which are the third (onaded- and abolished since the settlement of Penang by Capt. Light, in 1786, were instituted by Me Castley, Superintendent of the Botanic Gar dis collections and baggage and narrowly dens of Singapore, in 1884, and Mr. Cartier escaped with his life. During bis Eastern ex appointed Assistant Superintendent of Forests paditions be introduced to Eumpsa Gardens took over his appointment in July 1884, and very many omamnatal plants and among those immediately sat to work with much energy. asociated withhisnamence Nepanther Cantiki), mental nursery and laid out the waterfall gar- Rhododendron tricolor var Curtisli, the letter "He started a forest tree nursery and an experi- Cypripedium Curtiaii, Mederella Conisii," des which was intended to be a garden for being one of the parents of a large series of the Colonial produce. All this was effected-in-the-superb-hybrid-Rhododendrous now cultivated first year of his work. :
in the hot house of Europeas Gardens (Hortai Veitchianus). In 1884, he accepted the post of assistant superintendent of the Pausng Foruntu and the Gardens, where he remained till 1903, when Illness, no doubt, 'induced by his hard- labours in Madagascar and the East Indies id the cause of botany and horticulture; compelled bis retirement to England. He returned to Devonshire, his former home, and is occupying himself in the coltivation and improvement of roses, sweet peas, tomatos and other plants.
During his superintendance of the Penang Gardens, he did not confou his attentions to borticultore only. His collections ol' herbarium specimens were very valuable and contributed largely to the knowledge of the flora of the Malay ·Peninsula, · His name is associated with ́a very large number of plants discovered by
kim in bis expeditions.
The cust of Docking, and repair) work, will be found to compare. favourably with that appearance and an immense amount of labour of any port in the world,
WATERFALL VALLEY. The ground of the waterfall valley had been a quarry and was covered with latang and huge blocks of stone, giving it a most hopeless
was required to get it into the semblance of à garden. But Mr. Curtis was a man fall of anorgy
to be daunted by difficulties. In a surprisingly short time, the laland was exterminated, the stones removed, the tiream bridged in several places, plant houses and poods made, and"an extensive collection of rare and baautiful plants made.
A large mooring basin li avallable alongside cur own works for mooring vessels whilst and skill de a landscape gardener and was not under' repalis,
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ONE GODOWNS in 'MASONS LANE.
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Meanwhile, during his excursion in the forests of Papadg, the Dissings, Perak and Lankawi, he collected specimens for the har- barium, and for the Garden, and the great cumber of plants associated with his name attest to bis success in this direction. He possessed indeed the greatest skill not only in discovering but in importing alive and cultivating plants worthy of the admiration of all lovers of nature. A garden for trees was all Apply to
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The experimental nursery towards the top of the Government Hill was intended for attempt ing to acclimatise European froits, olives, ap- ples and peaches; lamons and many other treed were plaöled there, and the last two men- tioned produced good frait. The olives formed large bushy trees bat did not fruit. It was found, however, that ibis altitude, rather over 2,000 feet, was not high enough for European fruits and this little garden was not kept up
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Besides the ordinary reports, and accounts of expeditions he published a list of the plant of Fenang in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and 'a Latin-Malay list of plant names in the same Journal. He also wrote a number of articles on agriculture in the Bulletin, chiefly dealing with his ex- periments and observations on rubber, gotta percha, and many other economics: The foundation of the series of agricultural ex- hibitions on, a large and more general scale than they were formerly held was due to his, initiative. He was made a fellow of the Lineso Society for his contributions in botanical science.
Mr. Ridley also dips into history with a valuable general account of the gardens of the peninsula, which we propose to reproduce in a subsequent issus,
Intimations.
JAPANESE MASSAGE.
small garden, where flowers and vegetables were cultivated for the use of people occupying the Governor's bungalow, peti, leeks, kohlrabi, new potatoes, carroti, etc., ware. grown here with great success, although the available space was small and all manure had to be carried up Masseur MEIJI SHA,
by band. Rose, carnations and olber Euro- pean flowers were also cultivated here, and aumbers of Burmese archids were planted on the trees.
PICTURESQUE.
The waterfall gardens soon became the ad- miration of all visitors to Penang, and Mr. J. H. Veitch, of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, in his Traveller's Notes, written in 1896, gives an excellent account of what he saw in bis visit
· there, & descriptios too long to reprint, Axel Prayer, in his lodo-Malaylsbe Streifzuge, pub- Jished in 1993, sayı Der Garten ist zwar nur klein aber gut gehalten und zeigt in seinem
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The soil of the gardena was poor and sandy but in spite of such difficulties many fine and rare trees and shrnby were successfully grown, while the plant houses, beautifully kept and stocked with indigenous, and exotic plante,
Cakre highly admired. In one spot grew proba bly the biggest Grammatophyllum speciosum in coltivation anywhere. It measured forty..
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Dentistry.
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great abundance of 'flowers on. racemes over seven feet tall
The situation of the garden, a valley sur rounded with magnificent forest-clad kills, and 4the waterfall and picturesque Indian shtine at the further end produced a series of vistas up- | equalled by any garden in the East. – It was, of course, the greatest, one might` way the only, attraction in Penang to the traveller, and in spite of its distance from the town was visited by bosts of visitors from all part of the globe. The King of Siam, on bis rare visits to Penang, never failed to drive to the Gardens, and to inspect them under the guidance of Mr. Curtis CONDOLENCE.
From the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A
Telephone 126. Hongkong, 37th January, 1910,
TSIN TING
But in about 1900, a scheme for convert- ing them into a reservoir to increase the | supply of water to Penang" town' was talked [a about, and au from that duin it was nocer- tain whether at may misste the work of destruction would not commence, it was not considered worth while to continue planting but valuable or rare trees to be destroyed îm-
LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY, | mediately. But now, after an pacertainty of
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lng years, it has been decided that the ground is required for a reservoir, and the abandon. ment and destruction of this beautiful garden is practically an accomplished fact. We can only condola with Penang on the loss of its only attraction,BRAN
As the Gardens are so intimately connected with Mr. Curtis it may not be out of place here:
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