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ornamental, though, at this latitude, they do not bear ripe
13.
nuts.
On the important sanitary
question of cultivating the Eucalyptus
in
Hongkong, I have the honour to lay before Your Lordship a brief report
by Mr. Ford which I called for and printed in the Government Gazette
of March 1879. Up
to that time, it appears
that only four hundred seedlings of the Eucalyptus Globulosa
had been planted in the Colony, and
one hundred survived. On
receipt of these but receiving Mr. Ford's
report
I instructed
him to take the necessary steps for getting four thousand seedlings of
that species of Eucalyptus, which
grows
in a
climate resembling that of
Hongkong. I hope to increase this number to twenty thousand next year. Accompanying
my report of May 1880 are some
photographs
that Mr. Ford's
may perhaps enable Your Lordship
to understand more
clearly what we have been attempting to do in the way
of tree planting than anything I could
say
in a
despatch. No I shows the
ground containing
Kowloong nursery.
This
year's
seedlings with some patches of little
old trees. The boundary of the
British territory
runs between the two
hills at the right. The hills in the extreme distance are in Chinese territory.
No II is the Sookumpoo nursery
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