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they have made wonderfully good growth and give every prospect of flowering freely in the spring.
Owing to the alteration in the alignment of Salisbury Road, Kowloon, several Aleurites trees had to be removed. The smaller trees were transplanted whilst the large specimens had to be destroyed.
A hedge of bamboos, 175 feet long, was planted on the Bowen Road at the top of a steep retaining wall to prevent children from falling over.
In the vicinity of Morrison Hill many of the Banian trees growing there had large holes in their trunks and branches and these were filled up with cement to prevent rain water accumulating in them and forming breeding places for mosquitoes.
Camphor trees infected with white ants were treated with carbolineum.
Street and road trees whose branches were likely to come in contact with Government telephone lines were attended to when required.
Branches of trees along country roads liable to interfere with persons on horseback or vehicular traffic were removed.
Goats were again a great nuisance in roads in Kowloon where young trees are planted.
Grazing grounds for goats have now been allotted to the Indian Police and it is hoped that this will tend to stop the nuisance.
The Military Authorities have had grazing grounds at Kowloon for several years.
Shataukok Castle Peak Road.-The section of the road between Santin and Autau was completed in 1913 but not sufficiently early in the year to admit of tree-planting. Planting, however, was begun and finished early in 1914.
Altogether 2,150 trees consisting of Poinciana, Albizzia, Camphor, Melaleuca and Ficus infectoria were planted.
Each tree was protected by a guard, pig baskets being used for this purpose.
In the previous year sugar baskets were used but the Chinese from whom they were obtained apparently thought through the Department could not do without them and put up the price until it was prohibitive and lost all orders in consequence.
Pig baskets, the baskets in which pigs are carried to the market, proved to be both more suitable and cheaper.