by a committee of remained to Ston. Secretary. These shows succeeded in encouraging Chenin to cultivate regetables for the white population & improving horticulture generally. The Hon.
CR. Belilios, CMS., was so
was so impressed by Mis
work that he endowed the Society and
mase enjoelt Trucker, with another, of the Fund.
the
a
at once
VIII. Nerbarium. Stepo taken for making & preasvation and secon tifically amanginst a collection of the plants of the Colony, Cheras, to In this work I undertook series of excusions ex.
Lending in several hundred miles in the Chenin empire. The herbarium has ever reached considerable dimensions. The results of my botanical work ov distributed throughout the Indere Homme Si- nensis, the publication of which was begantry Kew in 1886 has just been completed.
Library. Attached withe
VIII.
herbaruminat beast, the rucleus of a
Or..
good library has been formed for the ine of the department & the public.
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III. Economic Plants. The importance & introduction & there has been kept in view, &
amongst the salto daing farms which have supplied with cultivated grasses
spring ups are
which
སམལ་-
zen ago propagated and
extended the cultivation of on a farm which
Jestablished
Ok
branch of my department &
from it supplied the &oremment horses with
fresh food.
I. New Zenitory. I department has already made its influence fell- in stimulations activity in the me of new economic plants.
II. Kings Park. This has recenthig been before the Colonial Office and I
need do no more than encomerate it.
9.
My work has received
ledgements
ouhon
generous at different lines from those who have been intimately, acquainted with it, including various botanists and Indian forest officers. In this connection I may mention by name Sir J. D. Hooke
and endlose her with
coffiny of his deat ication of a
volume of the Botanical
Magazine
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