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After every match bare places were repaired with good turf.
Weeds were removed as soon as they were discovered and the pitch was machined once a week during the summer.
Subordinate Officers' Quarters. The lawns of the Breezy Point Quarters were cut regularly once a week during the summer.
Water Police Station, Kowloon.-The Banian trees in this garden were lopped.
"Blue grass" was planted where there were bare patches and a Chrysalidocarpus hedge was put in to shut off the back quarters.
Bacteriological Institute.-Six Poinciana trees were planted in these grounds.
Peak School. On the completion of the building the level ground around it was turfed, with the exception of a small circular plot which was planted with Hibiscus and Hydrangea shrubs.
A big bank on the south side was turfed and planted up with Tristunia trees.
HERBARIUM.
The thanks of the Department are due to Mr. S. T. Dunn for his revision of the species of Derris in the Hongkong collection.
Seventy-nine specimens of plants, a most acceptable gift, were presented by Miss A. D. Hancock who collected them on the Lo Fou Mountains.
Most of these were not represented in our herbarium from this locality and a few of them were new to the Kwangtung Flora.
Captain Hodgins presented specimens which he collected at the coast ports, Saigon, Singapore, and Penang,
About 100 specimens collected locally were added to the collection.
A list of additions to the local flora is given in a supplement.
FORESTRY.
Formation of Pine Tree Plantations.-On the bare hills in blocks 9A and 9B on the south side of the Kowloon range of hills, about 47,000 one year old seedlings were planted.
In the same locality 22,000 sites were sown with seeds.
In the Tytam catchment area 14,000 sites were sown with seeds.
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After every match bare places were repaired with good turf.
Weeds were removed as soon as they were discovered and the pitch was machined once a week during the summer.
Subordinate Officers' Quarters. The lawns of the Breezy Point Quarters were cut regularly once a week during the summer.
Water Police Station, Kowloon.-The Banian trees in this garden were lopped.
"Blue grass
was planted where there were bare patches and a Chrysalidocarpus hedge was put in to shut off the back quarters.
Bacteriological Institute.-Six Poinciana trees were planted in these grounds.
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Peak School. On the completion of the building the level ground around it was turfed, with the exception of a small circular plot which was planted with Hibiscus and Hydrangea shrubs.
A big bank on the south side was turfed and planted up with Tristunia trees.
HERBARIUM.
The thanks of the Department are due to Mr. S. T. Dunn for his revision of the species of Derris in the Hongkong collection.
Seventy-nine specimens of plants, a most acceptable gift, were presented by Miss A. D. Hancock who collected them on the Lo Fou Mountains.
Most of these were not represented in our herbarium from this locality and a few of them were new to the Kwangtung Flora.
Captain Hodgins presented specimens which he collected at the coast ports, Saigon, Singapore, and Penang,
About 100 specimens collected locally were added to the collection.
A list of additions to the local flora is given in a supplement.
FORESTRY.
Formation of Pine Tree Plantations.-On the bare hills in blocks 9A and 9в on the south side of the Kowloon range of hills, about 47,000 one year old seedlings were planted.
In the same locality 22,000 sites were sown with seeds.
In the Tytam catchment area 14,000 sites were sown with seeds.
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