In India this grass is commonly called "doob" and it is very largely used for making lawns in that country.
The method of planting consisted in taking up small patches, about 6 inches square, of the grass from the roadsides and putting them in at about 6 feet apart.
By the end of the year nearly the whole of the area was covered with a green surface.
The cost of the work was only a few hundred dollars whereas if the ground had been turfed in the ordinary way with the grass generally used for lawns in the Colony, Chrysopogon aciculatus, the cost would have been about $8,000.
The large area near the Golf Club House, Happy Valley, which was damaged by fire in February, was relaid with turf.
A new grass tennis court was made in the Naval Yard at the expense of the local Government.
The numerous other small gardens, plots, and rockeries were kept in good order throughout the year.
HERBARIUM.
Professor E. D. Merrill of the Bureau of Science, Manila, presented 1,008 specimens of plants from Amboina, Manila, and Kwangtung.
Mr. C. O. Levine of the Chinese Christian College, Canton, presented 452 specimens collected on Lofoushan.
From Hainan, Mr. C. Talbot Bowring presented 193 specimens which he had collected in that island.
Three hundred and eighty-two specimens of Chinese plants were sent to the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and 16 specimens to Mademoiselle Colani of the Geological Survey, Hanoi.
Several specimens were collected locally and a list of additions to the Flora of the Colony is given in a supplement.
FORESTRY.
Formation of Pine Tree Plantations.---About 35,000 one year old seedlings were planted on the hills in the vicinity of the Fanling Golf Course, over 8,000 in the Cheungshawan catchment area, and 1,000 on Cheung Chau Island.
On the hills east of the Fanling Golf Course, pine tree seeds were sown in situ from which about 105,000 trees were raised.
At Aberdeen nearly 9,000 pine trees were raised from seeds sown in situ.
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In India this grass is commonly called "doob" and it is very largely used for making lawns in that country.
The method of planting consisted in taking up small patches, about 6 inches square, of the grass from the roadsides and putting them in at about 6 feet apart.
By the end of the year nearly the whole of the area was covered with a green surface.
The cost of the work was only a few hundred dollars whereas if the ground had been turfed in the ordinary way with the grass generally used for lawns in the Colony, Chrysopogon aciculatus, the cost would have been about $8,000.
The large area near the Golf Club House, Happy Valley, which was damaged by fire in February, was relaid with turf.
A new grass tennis court was made in the Naval Yard at the expense of the local Government.
The numerous other small gardens, plots, and rockeries were kept in good order throughout the year.
HERBARIUM.
Professor E. D. Merrill of the Bureau of Science, Manila, presented 1,008 specimens of plants from Amboina, Manila, and
Kwangtung.
Mr. C. O. Levine of the Chinese Christian College, Canton, presented 452 specimens collected on Lofoushan.
From Hainan, Mr. C. Talbot Bowring presented 193 specimens which he had collected in that island.
Three hundred and eighty-two specimens of Chinese plants were sent to the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and 16 specimens to Mademoiselle Colani of the Geological Survey, Hanoi.
Several specimens were collected locally and a list of additions to the Flora of the Colony is given in a supplement.
FORESTRY.
Formation of Pine Tree Plantations.---About 35,000 one year old seedlings were planted on the hills in the vicinity of the Fanling Golf Course, over 8,000 in the Cheungshawan catchment area, and 1,000 on Cheung Chau Island.
On the hills east of the Fanling Golf Course, pine tree seeds were sown in situ from which about 105,000 trees were raised.
At Aberdeen nearly 9,000 pine trees were raised from seeds
sown in situ.
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