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in level country such as is found round P'ing Shán where holdings are large and cultivation continuous. For well populated areas where every foot of land is valuable—as for instance to the south of the Kowloon watershed—a survey on a larger scale will no doubt be found necessary, while for land where the holdings are small there is no doubt that the 16-inch scale is totally inadequate.
For these reasons and because it was desired to have maps of villages on a sufficiently large scale to show each building in the village, it has been arranged that when Mr. Tate, in charge of the surveys, and Mr. Gompertz, Member of the Land Court, agree that for any given area the 16-inch scale is too small, the larger scale of 32 inches may be adopted.
Since the constitution of the Land Court the area to the south of the Kowloon hills, which had been already surveyed, has been entirely demarcated, and in the Táipó District the work of demarcation and survey is being pressed forward.
BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT.
Mr. Tutcher, the Acting Superintendent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department, has furnished me with the following information concerning the work done by his Department in the New Territory during last year.
Tree planting was commenced around the Police Stations, at P'ing Shán, Au T'au, Táipó, and on both sides of the road from Sham Shui-pó to Sha Tin. 81,154 trees have been planted.
In February 145 cuttings of seedling sugar canes were received from Mr. C. Curtis, F.L.S., Assistant Superintendent of Forests, Penang, and about one-half of these were planted in the Sookunpó Nursery and the rest at Ha Ts'ün. Only 15 plants were obtained in all, as the whole of the cuttings put in at Ha Ts'ün failed. Similarly, of 318 cuttings received in July from Mr. E. A. B. Brown, Province Wellesley, only those planted at Sookunpó have done well, being as regards size a great improvement on the ordinary Chinese cane. Cuttings from them were taken in this spring so that by next winter there should be a sufficient quantity of mature canes to test their sugar-producing qualities.
In September a consignment of 2,200 cuttings, in five varieties, was received from Java. These cuttings were planted at Ha Ts'ün, but owing to the lateness of the season they have not done well, only about 300 plants having survived.
The quantity of land under sugar cultivation in the New Territory is estimated at over 7,000 acres.
At the suggestion of Mr. Tutcher it is intended to establish Experimental Gardens on some of the agricultural land in the New Territory. Mr. Tutcher is of opinion that there are many kinds of fruit which could be grown, and that the experiment if...
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in level country such as is found round P'ing Shán where hold- ings are large and cultivation continuous. For well populated areas where every foot of land is valuable-as for instance to the south of the Kowloon watershed-a survey on a larger scale will no doubt be found necessary, while for land where the holdings are small there is no doubt that the 16-inch scale is totally in- adequate.
For these reasons and because it was desired to have maps of villages on a sufficiently large scale to show each building in the village, it has been arranged that when Mr. Tate, in charge of the surveys, and Mr. Gompertz, Member of the Land Court, agree that for any given area the 16-inch scale is too small, the larger scale of 32 inches may be adopted.
Since the constitution of the Land Court the area to the south of the Kowloon hills, which had been already surveyed, has been entirely demarcated, and in the Táipó District the work of demarcation and survey is being pressed forward.
BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT.
Mr. Tutcher, the Acting Superintendent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department, has furnished me with the fol- lowing information concerning the work done by his Depart- ment in the New Territory during last year.
Tree planting was commenced around the Police Stations, at P'ing Shán, Au T'au, Táipó, and on both sides of the road from Sham Shui-pó to Sha Tin 81,154 trees have been planted.
In February 145 cuttings of seedling sugar canes were received from Mr. C. Curtis, F.L.S., Assistant Superintendent of Forests, Penang, and about one-half of these were planted in the Sookunpó Nursery and the rest at Ha Ts'ün. Only 15 plants were obtained in all, as the whole of the cuttings put in at Ha Ts'ün failed. Similarly of 318 cuttings received in July from Mr. E. A. B. Brown, Province Wellesley, only those planted at Sookunpó have done well, being as regards size a great im- provement on the ordinary Chinese cane. Cuttings from them. were taken in this spring so that by next winter there should. be a sufficient quantity of mature canes to test their sugar pro- ducing qualities.
In September a consignment of 2,200 cuttings, in five varieties, was received from Java. These cuttings were planted at Ha Ts'ün, but owing to the lateness of the season they have not done well, only about 300 plants having survived.
The quantity of land under sugar cultivation in the New Territory is estimated at over 7,000 acres.
At the suggestion of Mr. Tutcher it is intended to establish Experimental Gardens on some of the agricultural land in the New Territory. Mr. Tutcher is of opinion that there are many kinds of fruit which could be grown, and that the experiment if
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