502 (5)
507
Planting for shade or ornament outside the Gardens.
Celtis sinensis,.
Heteropanax fragraus,
Aleurites triloba,.
Pine tree,
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Hydrangea hortensis,
17
• Rhododendron indicum, Bambusa taldoides,.......
11
32
77
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55 Des Vœux Road, Hongkong, 22 Conduit Road,
91 Gascoigne Road, Kowloon.
37 Robinson Road,
38 Conduit Road, Hongkong.
252 Conduit Road, 33 Barker Road,
45 Mountain Lodge, 51 Mountain Lodge, 337 Conduit Road,
131 Plantation Road, 105 Mount Kellet Road,
67 Barker Road,
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27
JJ
37
31
"
2
57
56 Mount Gough Road,
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Total,.....
1,320
The planting of flowering shrubs and trees on Crown Land has not proved a success in the past, in consequence of the destruction of a large proportion by coolies for the sale of their flowers. It is hoped, with the improved Forest Guard service, that this may be pre- vented and the planting resumed on a larger scale.
Oaks. An experiment was made with a small number of plants of Quercus fissu raised from seeds in pots and planted out in spring like pine seedlings on open ground in Pokfulamı valley. They have proved quite unsuitable for this use.
Nanmu. To the official request addressed as stated in my last Annual Report to British Consuls and others in China for seeds of the Chinese Coffin Wood or Nanmu tree, Mr. Fox, Acting Consul General at Chengtu, has most courteously responded by having sixteen pounds of seeds collected and sent to Hongkong. The seeds were enclosed in eight tins. Two were opened but I regret to say that, though carefully packed, and free from external injury, the whole contents were in a very unpromising condition, whether from the gathering having been premature or from what other cause it is difficult to say. The unopened tins were for- warded at once to South Africa on the chance of a few living seeds being found. The con- tents of the two that were opened were sown but all failed to germinate.
FORESTRY LICENCES.
The total number of forestry lots in the New Territories is 465, with an acreage of 52,094 acres and bringing in revenue of $4,805.80.
Private Forestry Licences, 38.
Village Forestry Licences, 399. Private Forestry Licence, 1 Village Forestry Licences, 27
Acres.
$
9.233.30
924.73
38,810-70
3,881.07
20.00
Unrenewed.
4,030-00
52,094.00
$4,805.80
An additional area of 9,213.5 acres came under the licensing system during the year while 4,050 acres formerly licensed were omitted for various reasons from this year's area. Out of 27 Village Licences unrenewed, 10 of the licensed areas proved to be bare of trees and therefore inadmissible to the scheme, 2 are applying for alteration of area, the remain- ing 15 being now under investigation.
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