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Colonial Cemetery.-Bare patches under trees where grass will not grow were planted up with Ophiopogon.
Large shrubs which were obstructing paths and obscuring tombstones were either cut back or removed.
Many large specimens of Chinese palms which had been planted on graves when quite small were cut down as they were damaging monuments on the graves on which they were planted as well as those of adjoining graves.
Seventeen young trees of Poinciana regia were planted in various localities.
A row of Ficus repens was planted at the foot of the cutting made in connection with one of the new terraces. These plants will in time cover the cutting and render it less unsightly than at present.
One old tree of Bauhinia purpurea was cut down and a young specimen of Bauhinia Blakeana planted.
The plant houses were repaired by the Public Works Department.
Royal Square Garden.-Cannas interfering with the development of shrubs were taken away.
The beds in the middle of the plots were kept filled with annuals and other flowering plants.
The plants of Bauhinia Blakeana in the plots grew and flowered well.
A few cockchafer grubs were found under the lawns at the end of June and these were collected and destroyed.
To get rid of worms in the lawns a dressing of chachui was given.
Fifty Chinese palms in pots were placed around the Queen Victoria Statue.
Civil Hospital Grounds.-The lawns were dressed with artificial fertilizers but as practically all the lawns were covered with matsheds in the middle of August the results could not be determined.
The matsheds were still standing at the end of the year so that all the lawns will require to be re-turfed when the matsheds are removed.
The area used as a pot plant compound was also utilized for matsheds and a temporary place was found elsewhere.
The Aleurites trees around the Maternity Hospital were pruned.
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Colonial Cemetery.-Bare patches under trees where grass will not grow were planted up with Ophiopogon.
Large shrubs which were obstructing paths and obscuring tombstones were either cut back or removed.
Many, large specimens of Chinese palms which had been planted on graves when quite small were cut down as they were damaging monuments on the graves on which they were planted as well as those of adjoining graves.
Seventeen young trees of Poinciana regia were planted in various localities.
A row of Ficus repens was planted at the foot of the cutting made in connection with one of the new terraces. These plants will in time cover the cutting and render it less unsightly than at present.
One old tree of Bauhinia purpurea was cut down and a young specimen of Bauhinia Blakeana planted.
ment.
The plant houses were repaired by the Public Works Depart-
Royal Square Garden.-Cannas interfering with the develop- ment of shrubs were taken away.
The beds in the middle of the plots were kept filled with annuals and other flowering plants.
The plants of Bauhinia Blakeana in the plots grew and flowered well.
A few cockchafer grubs were found under the lawns at the end of June and these were collected and destroyed.
To get rid of worms in the lawns a dressing of chachui was given.
Fifty Chinese palms in pots were placed around the Queen Victoria Statue.
Civil Hospital Grounds.-The lawns were dressed with arti- ficial fertilizers but as practically all the lawns were covered with matsheds in the middle of August the results could not be determined.
The matsheds were still standing at the end of the year so that all the lawns will require to be re-turfed when the matsheds are removed.
The area used as a pot plant compound was also utilized for matsheds and a temporary place was found elsewhere.
The Aleurites trees around the Maternity Hospital were pruned.
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