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Inspection of Nursery Stock and Vegetable Products.- Seventeen consignments of Narcissus Tazetta containing 335,994 bulbs and 4 consignments of various Lilium Spp. containing 5,325 bulbs were inspected and certified as fit for export to Great Britain, United States of America and other countries where plant quarantine regulations are in force.
One hundred and twenty-three consignments of fresh and dried vegetable products were examined and passed for export to the Philippine Islands.
Sugar Cane consigned to Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States must now be accompanied by a certificate of fitness for export; three consignments containing 28,500 pieces were dealt with.
SEED COLLECTION.
Seeds of the following were collected for local use and for the purpose of exchange:- Artocarpus hypargyrea, Liquidambar Chinensis, Strychnos angustifolia, Eucalyptus tereticornis, Celtis sinensis, Melaleuca leucadendron, Albizzia Lebbek, Bischofia javanica, Castanospermum australe, Ardisia crispa, Atalantia Hindsii, Garcinia oblongifolia, Acacia pennata, Leucaena glauca, Cassia fistula, Sapium sebiferum, Sapium discolor, Melia Azedarach, Pinus Massoniana, Callistemon rigidus, Cinnamomum Camphora, Aleurites montana, Aleurites triloba, Aleurites Fordii, Casuarina equisetifolia, Cunninghamia sinensis, Glyptostrobus heterophyllus, Bauhinia variegata, Tristania conferta, Sterculia lanceolata, Ficus retusa, Callistemon lanceolata, Poinciana regia, Paulownia Fortunei, Evodia triphylla and Tutcheria spectabilis.
EXCHANGE OF SEEDS, ETC.
The Department is indebted to the following donors of seeds, plants, etc.- Curator, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh; Director, Horticultural Section, Giza, Egypt; Superintendent, La Mortola, Italy; Director, Department of Agriculture, Bermuda; Experiment Station, Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association, Board of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu; The Laynitz Nurseries, Victoria, B.C.; Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Mass.; His Excellency the Governor General of the Philippine Islands; Professor Woon-yung Chun, Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton; Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson; Messrs. H. Humphreys, J. E. P. Walker, Dr. Lyon (Honolulu); J. F. Grose; P. C. Yieh (Nanking); D. V. Steavenson; G. H. Gandy; W. Dixson (Sydney) and L. W. Bryan (Honolulu).
The following were the principal recipients:- Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Superintendent, Agricultural Department, St. Lucia, B. W. I.; Conservator of Forests, Sandakan; Director, Agricultural Station, Paget East, Bermuda;