Appendix M.
REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1911.
GARDENS AND GROUNDS.
Botanic Gardens.-The first four months of the year were very favourable for gardening operations. The month of May was unusually wet, the rainfall being the greatest registered for that month since 1902. Typhoon signals were hoisted frequently during the months of July, August and September, and the gale in early August, which was followed by heavy rain, did considerable damage.
2. Owing to the very dry autumn and winter of 1910-1911 many trees and shrubs flowered much more profusely than usual.
3. The Spanish Iris bulbs presented by Mr. J. Barton produced a large percentage of blooms.
4. Mr. M. J. D. Stephens presented seedlings of Streptocarpus and they flowered quite freely. It was the first time that this plant had flowered in Hongkong so far as is known.
5. Tillandsia Regina, a very striking Bromeliad, and the only plant in the Colony, flowered early in June.
6. Plants of Mussaenda erythrophylla, received from the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, flowered for the first time in August. This plant should prove extremely useful if it will withstand the Hongkong winter.
7. Lycoris aurea is now quite a feature in the Gardens in September and October, and flowers quite as freely as the common Daffodil in England.
8. The three trees of Bauhinia Blakeana, two in the Old Garden and one in the New Garden, flowered magnificently in September and were still in flower at the end of the year. This is undoubtedly the best winter-flowering tree in the Colony.
9. Poinsettias were much better than they have been for the last two or three years as they managed to escape the effects of the wind.
10. Several hundred seedlings of Amaryllis were planted out in a bed in the Old Garden. These plants do remarkably well, and are a fine sight when in flower.
Appendix M.
REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY
DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1911.
GARDENS AND GROUNDS.
Botanic Gardens.-The first four months of the year were very favourable for gardening operations. The month of May was unusually wet, the rainfall being the greatest registered for that month since 1902. Typhoon signals were hoisted frequently dur- ing the months of July, August and September, and the gale in early August, which was followed by heavy rain, did considerable damage.
2. Owing to the very dry autumn and winter of 1910-1911 many trees and shrubs flowered much more profusely than usual.
3. The Spanish Iris bulbs presented by Mr. J. Barton produced a large percentage of blooms.
4. Mr. M. J. D. Stephens presented seedlings of Streptocarpus and they flowered quite freely. It was the first time that this plant had flowered in Hongkong so far as is known.
5. Tillandsia Regina, a very striking Bromeliad, and the only plant in the Colony, flowered early in June.
6. Plants of Mussaenda erythrophylla, received from the Bo- tanic Gardens, Singapore, flowered for the first time in August. This plant should prove extremely useful if it will withstand the Hongkong winter.
7. Lycoris aurea is now quite a feature in the Gardens in September and October, and flowers quito as freely as the common Daffodil in England.
8. The three trees of Bauhinia Blakeuna, two in the Old Garden and one in the New Garden, flowered magnificently in September and were still in flower at the end of the year. This is undoubtedly the best winter-flowering tree in the Colony.
9. Poinsettias were much better than they have been for the last two or three years as they managed to escape the effects of the wind.
10. Several hundred seedlings of Amaryllis were planted out in a bed in the Old Garden. These plants do remarkably well, and are a fine sight when in flower.
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