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(d)-FORESTRY, AGRICULTURE, AND BOTANY.
At Kowloon Tsai, 2,500 one year old trees of Pinus Massoniana were planted.
On the hills between Cheung Sha Wan and the Taipo road, 50,000 sites were sown with pine seeds.
All sites in which seeds had failed to germinate at Cheung Chau and Fan Ling were resown with pine seeds, altogether 45 pounds of pine seeds were used.
294 pounds of pine seed was sown broadcast on grass banks above and below roads at the following places: Taipo road, Tsin Wan road, Chai Wan gap to Tytam, Tytam to Stanley, Stanley road, Findlay road, Lugard road, Sai Kung gap to Ha Chan gap, and roads on Cheung Chau.
On the grass slopes below Severn road, 394 one year old trees of Pinus Massoniana were planted.
Broad leaved trees planted.
In the vicinity of Aberdeen reservoir, 186 young trees of "Jak" (Artocarpus integrifolia) were planted.
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185 Tristanias and 45 Eucalyptus were planted on grass banks below Severn road.
The trees used for roadside planting were principally camphor, Tristania, Albizzia, Melaleuca, Poinciana, Aleurites, and Bauhinia; these were used at the following places: Tytam road 20, Shaukiwan 12, Shaukiwan to Tytam 59, Bowen road 2, Pokfulam road 2, Barker road 6, Plantation road 13, Conduit road 2, Albany road 2, Nathan road 46, Mody road 3, Taipo road 422, Tsin Wan road 738, and 24 near the market on the Sham Shui Po reclamation.
Trees removed.
In connection with general improvements to and widening of roads in various parts of the Colony, large shade trees had to be felled at the following places: Queen's road east 9, Arsenal street 2, Caine road 4, Eastern street 2, Pokfulam road 1.
At Taipo police station, a number of large specimens of Tristania which were entirely shutting out the view of the railway station and the adjoining public road were removed.
In connection with extensions at Kowloon and Yaumati reservoirs and the formation of the site for new cemeteries at Fo Pang Hang, numbers of Pinus Massoniana had to be removed from adjoining plantations.