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AGRICULTURE ETC.
A general exhibit of foreign vegetables was staged at the first New Territories Agricultural Show which was held at Sheung Shui on November 7th and 8th.
More interest is now displayed in the cultivation of both foreign and native vegetables for local consumption, this is chiefly due to increased motor transport and the communication between the Hong Kong markets and the New Territories villages which was established during labour troubles and consequent shortage of fresh vegetables during 1925.
Inspection of Nursery Stock.-Eleven consignments of bulbs of Narcissus Tazetta were inspected during the year, of these four consignments totalling 57,106 bulbs were exported to United States of America and Honolulu; seven consignments totalling 177,840 bulbs were exported to Britain and British Colonies.
Small consignments of fruits, dried legumes and vegetables were inspected before being exported to the Philippine Islands by local firms.
SEED COLLECTION.
Seeds of the following were collected for local use and for the purpose of exchange, Casuarina equisetifolia, Cunninghamia sinensis, Glyptostrobus heterophyllus, Leucaena glauca, Bauhinia variegata, Cassia fistula, Tristania conferta, Sterculia lanceolata, Ficus retusa, Callistemon lanceolata, Garcinia oblongifolia, Melia Azedarach, Callistemon rigidus, Cinnamomum Camphora, Poinciana regia, Aleurites Fordii, Aleurites montana, Aleurites triloba, Acacia pennata and Pinus Massoniana.
EXCHANGE OF SEEDS, &c.
The Department is indebted to the following donors of seeds, plants &c. The Curator, Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeeling; Director of Agriculture, Peradeniya; Superintendent, La Mortola, Ventimiglia, Italy; Director, Forestry Department, Sandakan; Botanic Gardens, Glasgow; Bureau of Forestry, Manila; Horto Botanico Tergestino, Trieste, Italy; Dr. A Gundersen (New York); Professor J. Balme (Mexico); Lt. Colonel E. D. Matthews; Mrs. R. M. Dyer and Messrs. J. F. Grose; C. H. Blason; M. J. Quist (Consul-General for the Netherlands); W. Dixson (Sydney); R. A. Nicholson, W. W. Hornell, and C. C. Nelson.
The following were the principal recipients. Director, Imperial Institute, England; Department of Agriculture, Peradeniya; Ministry of Agriculture, Horticultural Section, Giza (Mudiriya), Egypt; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Senor Matheus d'Andrade (Azores); Sir Edward Stubbs (Jamaica);