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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1983
PLANTS FEATURED IN COUNTRY PARKS BADGES
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TWO SPECIES OF PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO HONG KONG ARE FEATURED ON TWO NEWLY DESIGNED CLOTH BADGES PRODUCED BY THE COUNTRY PARKS AUTHORITY.
THE BADGES HERALD IN A NEW GENERATION OF SOUVENIR BADGES WHICH WILL HAVE DESIGNS OF SPECIAL PLANTS FOUND IN THE VAR FOUS COUNTRY PARKS IN HONG KONG.
THE NEW BADGES, FOR THE SHING MUN AND THE ABERDEEN COUNTRY PARKS WERE PUT ON SALE AT THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT'S COUNTRY PARKS DISPLAY AT THE URBAN COUNCIL FLOWER SHOW WHICH OPENED TODAY (FRIDAY) AT THE CITY HALL.
THEY ARE ALSO AVAILABLE AT $1.50 EACH FROM THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT ON THE 12TH FLOOR OF THE CANTON ROAD GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN KOWLOON: THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS SALES CENTRE ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE G.P.O. BUILDING IN CONNAUGHT PLACE ON HONG KONG ISLAND AND AT THE MANAGEMENT CENTRES OF THE TWO COUNTRY PARKS.
THE DESIGN OF THE SHING MUN COUNTRY PARK BADGE FEATURES A FLOWER OF A BEAUTIFUL TREE GRANTHAM'S CAMELLIA, WHICH WAS FIRST DISCOVERED IN THE WOODLANDS NEAR SHING MUN IN 1955. IT WAS NAMED IN HONOUR OF THE THEN GOVERNOR, SIR ALEXANDER GRANTHAM BY BOTANIST DR J.R. SEALY,
THE SQUARE-SHAPED BADGE HAS A MAROON-COLOURED BACKGROUND BORDERED IN YELLOW,
THE CAMELL JA FLOWERS IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER AND IS SPECIALLY PROTECTED BECAUSE OF ITS RARITY,
THE ABERDEEN COUNTRY PARK BADGE DEPICTS THE POD AND SEEDS OF A SMALL DECIDUOUS TREE CALLED THE EMARGINATE-LEAVED ORMOSIA, AN INDIGENOUS SPECIES FIRST NOTED IN 1852 BY BOTANIST G. BENTHAM WHO WROTE +FLORA HONGKONGENSIS PUBLISHED IN 1861.
THE ORMOSIA LEAVES ARE PINNATE WITH THREE TO FIVE LEATHERY LEAFLETS THE TIP OF WHICH HAVE A NOTCH.
THE LIKENESS OF THE PLANT IS SEWN ON A LIGHT GREY BACKGROUND ON THE BADGE.
EACH BADGE IS COUPLED WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANT.
STOCKS OF SEVEN OTHER BADGES PRODUCED PREVIOUSLY FOR COUNTRY PARKS AND ANOTHER FOR THE MACLEHOSE TRAIL, AND COUNTRY PARKS PUBLICATIONS, VESTS AND T-SHIRTS ARE ALSO ON SALE AT THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT DISPLAY IN THE CITY HALL.