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Broad-leaved Trees Planted :-In the natural forest behind Little Hongkong Old Village, where the old trees of various kinds are being felled by contract, 3,500 young Camphor trees were planted. It is hoped in time to produce a Camphor plantation in this area. Eighty four young "Jak" trees Artocarpus integrifolia were planted to replace failures in a plantation near Aberdeen Reservoir. Around the proposed Golf Course at Shek 0, 58 Poinciana regia, 2 Albizzia Lebbek, 5 Aleurites montana and 59 Aleurites triloba were planted and along the motor road to Shek O 207 trees of various kinds were used to replace failures. Owing to the prevailing high winds replacements of failures of young trees along the various roads were exceptionally numerous.
On the slopes of the Sung Wong Toi, Kowloon, a mixed collection of flowering trees was planted consisting of 48 Casuarina equisetifolia, 30 Tristania conferta, 41 Eucalyptus tereticornis, 38 Poinciana regia, 12 Celtis sinensis, 26 Bischofa javanica, 6 Albiz- zia Lebbek, 32 Bauhinia variegata and 78 Cinnamomum Camphora. In Plantation 9A at Tai Wo Po, Kowloon, 9,200 young Camphor trees were planted.
The principal trees used for roadside planting consisted of Tristania conferta, Casuarina equisetifolia, Bauhinia Blakeana, Bauhinia variegata, Aleurites triloba, Erythrina indica, Ficus in- fectoria, Melaleuca Leucadendron, Crataeva religioso, Paulownia Fortunei, Poinciana regia, Cassia fistula and Cinnamomum Cam- phora, which were used in the following places, Stubbs Road 192, Conduit Road 4, Broadwood Road 32, Shek O Road 101, Repulse Bay Road 5, Pokfulam Road 8, Magazine Gap Road 17, Wong- Nei-Chong Gap Road 10, Salisbury Road (Kowloon) 30, Nam Chong Street (Shumshuipo) 90, Taipo Road (N. T., 59, Lok Ma Chau Road (N. T.) 153, and Santin Road (N. T.) 13.
Miscellaneous Planting :-Ficus creepers were used to cover up bare earth cuttings on the following positions, Stubbs Road 268, May Road 66, Craigmin Road 80, Broadwood Road 730, Wong-Nei-Chong Gap Road 80 and Chamberlain Road 63. Six Melaleuca Leucadendron were planted near the Wanchai Dispen- sary, and in the vicinity of Tregunter Mansions, May Road, a mix- ed collection of flowering trees, shrubs and creepers was planted. Forty Hibiscus were used for the replacement of failures on Crown Land above Barker Road and twenty five Hydrangeas were trans- planted from a small plot near Chamberlain Road affected by the construction of the motor road, to an open area adjoining Peak Road above the Upper Tram Station.
In Stanley Military Cemetery 28 Aleurites triloba, 2 Crataera religiosa, 2 Casuarina equisetifolia and 10 Allamanda Schottii were planted to replace failures.