37. Inspection of Nursery Stock and Vegetable Products.- Fourteen consignments of Sugar Cane, totalling 99,900 pieces were inspected and certified as fit for export to Singapore. Seventy-two consignments of vegetables, both fresh and preserved, were passed for export to the Philippine Islands and fourteen lots of miscellaneous live plants and seeds to various countries. Narcissus Tazetta, seventeen consignments, totalling 174,020 bulbs were inspected and passed for export to Britain, Canada, United States of America and Japan.
38. Seeds of the following were collected for local use and for the purpose of exchange:- Albizzia Lebbek, Atalantia Hindsii, Aleurites Fordii, Aleurites montana, Aleurites triloba, Acacia confusa, Acacia pennata, Artocarpus integrifolia, Ardisia crispa, Bischofia javanica, Bauhinia variegata, Cinnamomum Camphora, Cassia glauca, Cassia fistula, Cunninghamia sinensis, Casuarina equisetifolia, Callistemon rigidus, Callistemon lanceolata, Cupressus macrocarpa, Diospyros Morrisiana, Datura alba, Eucalyptus tereticornis, Garcinia oblongifolia, Glyptostrobus heterophyllus, Ilex pubescens, Iris speculatrix, Leucaena glauca, Lilium Brownii var. Colchestri, Melia Azedarach, Melaleuca Leucadendron, Marica begoniaefolia, Pterocarpus indicus, Pithecolobium dulce, Phoenix Roebelinii, Pentaphylax euryoides, Quercus cornea, Quercus Edithae, Quercus thalassica, Quercus Championi, Quercus polystachya, Quercus Elizabethae, Rhodoleia Championi, Strychnos angustifolia, Sapium sebiferum, Sterculia lanceolata and Tristania conferta.
EXCHANGE OF SEEDS, ETC.
39. The Department is indebted to the following donors of seeds, plants &c. The Harvard Botanical Gardens, Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba; The Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University; Dr. M. O. Pfister; Major Manners; Professor Woon-yung Chun (Canton); The Mow Fong Garden; Hon. Sir William Shenton; Mrs. Harrington; Mrs. R. E. Hoare; and Messrs. E. H. Lewis; J. F. Grose; R. A. Pereira; A. F. de V. Soares; W. J. S. Key; A. Stevenson and Messrs. Edward Webb & Sons, Ltd. (England).
40. The following were the principal recipients:- The Director, Department of Agriculture, Zomba, Nyasaland; The Curator, Royal Botanic Gardens, St. Clair, Trinidad, British West Indies; The All-union Institute of Plant Industry, Sukhum Section of Humid Subtropics, Sukhum, Abkhazia, Transcaucasus, U.S.S.R.; The Head of Department of New Cultures and Introduction, Institute of Plant Industry of the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Leningrad, U.S.S.R.; Sir Oscar Warburg, O.B.E. (England); Professor Woon-yung Chun (Canton); Senor Matheus D'Andrade Albuquerque (Azores); Dr. H. C. Sampson (England); Rev. E. W. L. Martin; Rev. E. G.