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BOTANIC GARDENS,

SUPERINTENDENT'S REFORT FOR 1909,

The report of the Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Department (Mr. W. 1. Tutcher) for last year, was laid before the Legislature, Council this afterno. a. It täten in part

ROTANIC GARDENS.

With the exception of the moth of October, the year on the whole was a very favourable

ona for gardening, The rainfall for October was the greatest on record, and, in addition there was a gale of considerable force on the 29th of the mooth,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY MAY 10 1910

acknowledgment of the latter, that the packlog Block System. These plantations were situat

left nothing to be desired.

THE GALE CF (CTOBER 19TH, small, very considerable damage was done to Although the destruction of farge trees was shrubs in the various gardens and grounds.“

BOTANIC GARDENS.

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A. 5. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. NOTICE.

To

"O-MORROW, 20th inant, all Depart A Chemist will be in attendance to dispense medicines to prescription. -

ments will be CLOSED.

ed at Mt. Davis (7G), Aberdean' (7D ̧& 6E), and Tytam (48) & E). The contract la io cxtend

All trees within 30 ft. main roids are to be left over 3 years and not more than 280 acres or less than 200 acres are to be failed in one year.

within so fl. of main roads are to be left and all pine trees under 6 inches in circumferenco. Fourim trees including Boukinia Blakeana The first lastaiment received by the Govern. were blown down but were afterwards raised. meat in connection with this contract amovol Numerous Rose but has 'and shrubs were desad to $4,091.67. A system of selling brush- always a fenture in the Gardens in November, places and the largest of it put into cords, the troyed. Poinsettias in beds which are nearly wood was cut down by the villagers of different were very much damaged and, as they had not villagers receiving a certain amount of the time to recovers, were more or less a failure, smalt shrubs lo return for the work done by them. The cords were then said, to a contractor at a fixed rate. A sum of $546,1* was received from this source. The total amount received from falling, including thinning was $6,145.79 FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF

* STREET TREYS..

For many years endeavours have been made, with little success, to Bower Sweet Peas al- Upwards of 150 young trees in Hongkong though at Kowload and at West Point, placerad Kowloon were blown over bat ware after which get much more sunshine then the wards raised, but few big tree were binwa down and killed. The Bimbaos planted along, he Peak Road suffered severely.

Botanic Gardens, the results have been morej satisfactory, This year, seeds from "Australls, presented by Mrs. Rowe, flowered freely in April, and were better than anything previous ly obtained in the Gardens. It is very pleasing to be able to record a still greater success, few seeds of an early flowerlog variety were obtained from Messrs. Seiten and Sons and were sown on the 38th October, and the plants were in fail flower on the 30th December.

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There was an exceedingly fine show of Gindirli in both the Old and New Gardens in May, and Gloxinias made a brilliant display in the No. 3 house in June.. In the same house earlier in the year. Primuli chconico was very attractive.

The old deuble-fawernd. Daffodil, bulbs of

HERBARIUM.

The Superintendent, Mr. S. T. Duan, der cribed a dezen new species of Chinese plants, principally from Hongkong and the New Ter ritories, in two papers which were published in the Journal of Botany.

A collection of plents from Swatow was made by the Superintendent when on start leave and presented to the Department

The Superintendent also presented 16 banks, mostly botanical, to the Library, many of which

wern ia several volumes,

The Bureau of Science,-Manila, pesated 418 Philippice "plants, Professor Sargent of Harvard Uiversity 223 plants from Kwangsi,

which were presented to the Gardens by Mr. and the Assi tant Superintendent 1,500 plants

J. Barton, flowered well on the back above the Grevillea walk in-iba Old Garden.

A very pretty addition to our winter, flower. jag plants was made in Monschąsmo riparium).

small shrub with panicles of small while flowers which are produced in large quantities The plant is easily grown, and is sure to be. come a general Javourite,

from Central Chinn, to the Herbarium..

Hoogkong, the New Territories and Kwang During the year a list of the native plants of

Province has been drawn up with a key to the orders, general and species, and is'now nearly complete,

COMMERCIAL INVESTIGATIONS,

Lists of the vegetable drugs of Hongkong, samples of many of which had already been Imperial Institute, London, for a report on to forwarded, were sent to the i Irector of the

whether any of them contained medicinal or toxic qualities, or had economic value. These lists were submitted by the Director of the Imperial Institute to the British Pharmacopoeia Committee of the General Medical Council, the Secretary, of which replied that the Com-

mities did not feel there were sufficient indications of the extent of employment of tadividual plants to say which, if any, should merit inclusion in the Colonial Addendum to the British Pharmacopce a The Director of the Imperial Institute added that he did not think

The Government is greatly indebted to Dr. any of the economic value wet alikely to yield products of economic value not already known. He Kai for supplying valuable information in investigations would have taken years regard to these drugs, without which the to Completo,

Seeds of Aleurites Fordii, Aleurites cordata, Alturites trilobaɔ, Soja hispids, Perilla ocy Mia. Gibbs, whose receat untimely death we, ides and 'barks of the above three species local plants to the Herbarium and Caplain have to deplase, presented many specimens of

Hodgins of the siyang presented several The list of additions to this Flora of Hong specimens collected piincipally at Fouchow.. kong and the New Territories.is given in a supplement,

FORESTRY.

A.-Demarcation-Letters and numbers were painted at tholt proper places, for the nasistance of the Forest Guards, in the vicinity of Victoria (Blocks 1 & 2), at Linie Hoogkong | (Block 5), at Aberdeen (Block, 6) and at Pekfu lam (Block 7.).

An addition to lec 1 vegetables was made by the Tiger Bean, krawn botanically as Mucun mize, Besides being u eful as a vegetable. cooked in the same way as French Beant, it is of great interest botanically. It was first de scribed by Roxburgh, in his Flora Indica in 1832 · from cultivated plante nt Calcuits. Hitherto the plant was not known by Euro- pesos in China, butit. was described in Chinese botanical works centuries ago. The 'teeds from which the plants were raised, were pre sented to the Gardens by one of the, gardeners who brought them back from his natiya village in Kwanglung, where he says it has been grown to his knowledge for the last forty years,

Level lines ware marked out at Shing Mun The flower and vegetable show of the Hong (Block 3) for planting purposes, kong Horticultural Society was held in the BORMATION OF PINE TREE PLANTATIONS. Gardens on the 16 h of February, and was a

An area of about 306 acres in the Harbour great success horticulturally, but financial re-Belt was sowo, (in-sites) to the eastward of the sults were greatly, marred by the-wat wearber,

The sale of plants by the Department having been stopped, surplus plasts remaining over at the end of the previous year, instead of being thrown away, were distributed, without pots, to members of the Horticultural Society, as it was found that they wou'd predace scarcely ary thing if sold by auction.

The scheme for the proposed tramway through the New Garden having heen dropped, very necessary repairs to the lower walk were taken in hand. The old chunam was taken up and replaced with cement and disintegrated grabite,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE GROUNDI.. The construction of the new staircase to the Ballroom necessitated their moval of a small shrubbery on the worth side of the ground. Any shrubs which were worth saving were transplanted elsewhere.

The lawns on the north side of the house were relaid as they had become very aseven.

Caterpillars were again troublesome in the Autumn on the lernis ground, But were kept under by applications of Jeyes' Fluid and water.

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BLAKE GARDEN,

The vacancies caused by the trees which wera

blown down is the previous years were planted up with young trees, and the turf which was demo" ged by cockchafers was partly renewed, and party replaced with blus grass. (Ophiopogon),

PEAK GARDEN.

An extension was begun by continuing the old colvert a distance of 125 feet, but it was not possible to do any Irvelling.

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WEST END PARK,

Several trees were planted and the park kept in assidy a condition aa funds would allow

KING'S PARK. Planting was commenced by puring in up. 'wards of 4on trees of various kinds, but it is to be regretted that several of these were after- wards stolen by persons unknown.

COLONIAL CEMETERY.

Trees were planted in various places and a good deal of turfing was done.

ROADS DE BANKS

The planting of Battery Path Bank was con tinued, and the Bank between Wyndham Street and Ice House Lane was planted, with blue grass and other ornamental plante. The bank between Upper Albert Road and Garden Road was planted with reveval species of palms.

Dr. E. A. Voreirsch, the Consul for Ger- many, presented several showy South American orchids to the Cardess in exchange for others, A large cumber of seedlings, of the Coffin

able oils, were also sent to the Director of the of Aleurites, as well as several kinds of veget Imperial Institute for a report as to their com

market. mercini value and suitability for the English

Professor Danstan reported that the back of Aleurites Fordii could be'ured locally as a tanning agent and would yield leather of fair quality, especially if employed in admixtuza with a mellower and richer taining material, such

myrabolane, but that the barke of the otber (wn species were useless as indoing

Agtals,

The following are Professor Dunstan's gene- ral conclusions on the three species;-

"Too suggestion that the barks of Aleurites, cordata and Aleurites Fordi might be examin ed as tanning materials was made to a letter dated 21st May, 1909, from the Imperial losti- tute to the uprintendent of the Botanical and sull of statements made in German technical journals, that the bark of Aleurites cordata is rich in tana n. A sumilar assertion has recent ly been made regardin, the bark of Aleurites motuciosa (Aleüvites trazdu).

A S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. Hongkong, 19th May, 1910.

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No. 6 of 1874 and No. 14 of 1903, all FIRE I No. 148 of with Government Nollication INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the transaction of Public Business TO. MORROW, the 20th, and TUESDAY, the 24th May, respectively. By Order,

A. R. LOWE, Secretary, Bongkong, 19th May, 1910r -

[383 MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS."

No. 6 of 1875 and No. 14 of 1933, all MARINE N accordance with Government Notification No. 138 of 13th instant, and Ordinances" INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED MORROW, the 20th, and TUESDAY, 'the for the transaction of, Public Business TO.

24th May, respectively,

By Order,

A. R. LOWE, Secretary, Hongkong, 19th May, 1910,

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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,'

LIMITED

NOTICE is hereby given that the ORDIN

ARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEET. ING of SHAREHOLDERS 61,,th above Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Alexandra Buildings, Den Vaux Road Central, on SATURDAY, the 28th day of May, 1910, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year

ending 30th April, 1910,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 25th Instant to zad June next, both days inclusivo.

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General Managers. Hongkong, 19th May, 1910.

FROM ‘EUROPE,

THE H. & L. Steamship

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Captain Kolate, having arrived, Consignees "SUEVIA, of Carge are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the hazardous and/or extra-bozardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence de livery may be obtained agains! Bills-of-Lading countersigned by the Undersigned.

Optional Cargo will be carried on unless notice to the contrary be given before, TO- DAY.

All Claims must be presented within tex days of the steamar's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods, remaining

undelivered after the 25th inst., will be subject

to rent

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods must be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 24th inst., at 3 P.M.

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No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in (384any care whatever.

THIS STEAMER BRINGS ON CARGO- Ex su. Tore from Abus.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA. LINIE,

Hongkong Office,

THE Undersigned have received instructions from The Official Administrator,

$

to sail by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

For Account. of the Estate of the late Mr. TIMAS ISAAC ROSE,

op... ***FRIDAY,

the 27th May, 191b, at 3.30 P.M., at

Goalisian," Conduit Road,

THE WHOLE OF HIS VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD'

FURNITURE

THEREIN, CONTAINED, Compriting:- CHIPPINDALE SOFA and CHAIRS, TEAKWOOD. SIDEBOARDS with BE VELLED GLASS, TEAKWOOD DINING ABLE and OHAIRS, MOROCCO-COVER,

TRESSES, STEADS with WIRE and HAIR MAT- BEVELLED GLASS, TEAKWOOD WARD. DRESSING TABLES with ROBES with BEVELLED GLASS, OVER- MANTELS, WASHSTANDS, CANTON CURIO STANDS, MARBLE-TOP BLACK INGS. A Quantity of JAPANESE and CHINESE.CURIOS, AXMINSTER CAR PETS, GLASS, CROCKERY and E.P.

FANS and ELECTRIC LAMPS, &c., &c, i WARE, LACQUERED TEA POYS, SILK. EMBROIDERED SCREENS, ELECTRIQ

Hongkong. 19th May, 1915..*

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

HE P. & O, S. N. Co.'s Steamer

THE P. &

"SIMLA,"

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FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, Malta, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignass of Cargo by the above-named vassol are hereby informed that their Good! are belog landed.and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowi Company's Godowns at Kowloos, where each. consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon a the Goods are landed.

Optional Goods will be lauded here volant instructions are given, to the contrary before

Goods not cleared by the zoth instant, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.

any case whatever,

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in

tast year's plantations in this neighbourhood. plantations formed in 1968, and the failures in Forestry Department at llongkong as the re. ED EASY CHAIRS, Double BRASS BED. 6 hours. in the cachment areas of the Kowloon and Tytam Reservoirs and in the Telled areas of Mt. Kettel and Abudcen were made Rond. Fifty pounds of pinasi eds were sown broadcait in the Shing Mun Valley. To all 389,190 pits were sown or planted at a cost of $1,281

C.-CARE. OF TREES IN PLANTATIONS,

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Large quantities of undergrowth were given return for work done by them for the Depart to the villagers in Hoogloog and Kowloon in

ment. The work done by the villagers was of various kinds, such as cleaning, fire barriers, digging pits for sowing seeds, path making and cord making. In all 27,216 louds, of about fo cattles ench, wesa disposed of in this way, and taking the value of a lead at 6 cents, (the vill agers bad to cut it themselves under the super vision of Foresters), it was 'saving to the Gov- ernment of about $1ço in cash. The onder- growth was taken out of the following planta tions Victoria (1) Wongpeichung (), Shau kiwan (3), Little Hongkong (5), Aberdeen (6), Pokfulam (7), Mongkok (8), Taipo Road (9) and Kowloon Receivai(c). In the two latter blocks pine tree branches were given as agundergrowth in this weak were Aberdeen, Aplichiaus, Little was available. The villages which participated

Hongkong, Mongkok, Publilam, Shankiwan, Tai Hagg sed Weugneichung. This method of paying for work cannot be carried on inda Gioitely as the undergrowth in the plantations in the result of many years' growth and pro- section, and its removal will alto lower the price of future leaders for tree falling.

- D.- PROTECTION FROM FIRE.

Old fire barriers were cleaned to the extent, of 118,90s fret at a cost of 10,116 leads of brush. wood and $51.80 in cash. New barriers, 1794 feet were male al Tyram and in the Harbour Belt at a cost of 644 loads of brush wood and 19161 in cash, Fify-seven fires were reported, the largest occurring in 6B where 55 acres were baret,

E-FOREST GUARDS' SERVICE.

There were more réporis of pine tree and brushwood scaling during the year and more co:victions iban in the previous year.. Not. withstanding the amount of brushwood given to the various villagers for work done, in very case, with the oxception of Aberdeen and Wongneichung, the reports of fuel stealing have nearly doubled, and for-Pokfulam, they have more than trebind.

Alcuits cordata 'nor

that

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The seaghs now recorded, do not bear out These statements, since seither the bark of of Alcuriter ik de contains enough tannin, to made whilst the amount of tannin present in the bark it uitable for 10 as larning material,

Aleurites Fordidės small. Of the three barka, only that of Aleurites Fordit could be used for tooning. but even this material contains too little taunin to be worth exporting and it would) only be suitable for local use.

During the year an Ordinance was passed amending the Malicious Damage Ordinance of 1865. This will enable the Department to deal Wood tree, Mickitur. Nanmu, Hemily, were the damage may be reasonably supposed to be with the destruction of trees bear villages, when rated in the Albany Nursery from seeds sup the action of residents of the village where such plied to be Autumn of 1908 by the British Cau, Chengen, Srschuen; and 14 wardians destruction has taken place.

cases containing 70 plan's sach, were despatch

conviction, for the unlawful removal of trees One fuel stealer was banished, on a second

ed to various. British Colonies and ladle, from a Government Plantation. With regard

and one care each to Manila and Tring

tau.

to the agreements made with the occupants of

As showing, how much depends upon muisheds mentioned in last year's report, a rUM

of $10 was received for damage done to trees

the treatment of the cares_on_board- ship, and the weather encountered on the voyage, it is only necessary to say that within a radius of 500 yards from such

the saidlings sent to Pretorie, with tranship- ment at Calcutta, and which were masily thras moniks on the voyage, azlyad in good condition whilst those shipped to Caylon suffered severe

#khough it was gifted in the letter of

masheds.

F-REVENUE FALLING."

In October, a contract was sigurd whereby the Government agreed to sell 710 acres of plaq tree plantations to be falled under the|

It seems, unlikely that the present results differ from those previously, recorded owing to differences in the ages of the trees yielding the barks. The three samples of hatk forwarded from Hoogkong were apparently obtained from fairly old trees, and as a rule the percentage of tannin in the bark increases with the age of the tree. It is refore improbable that the de- ficiency of any in the present specimens is due to collection at do early a stage.

from lengkeng may be taken as typical and If these samples of various Aleurites barks

fairly representative of the basks produced by statements made regarding their richness 'in these trees elsewhere, it would appear that the

tandia are inaccurate, possibly owing to the examination of noauthenticated material.

STAFF.

The Superiotendent, Mr. S.,T. Duon, was absent on vacation leave for 9 days bolwees the 6th and 19th April, and from the 23rd October to the end of the year, and the Assistani Superintendent Mr. W. J. Tutcher from the 26th April to 24th May, and from the 4k to.31st August.

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• REVENUE. Details of Revenue are given in Tubla V. The percentage of revenue to expenditure was 2612 ai compared with 13:6, in the precedlog year: A comparative statement of Reveeus and Expenditure for the last to years is shown in Table VI,

Events Coming.

Friday, 20th May, Day of Mourelog, dies nox. · Memorial Service, St. Jobo's Cathedral,

11:30 am

Co.'s godowns, 11 am.

Saturday, 21 May, 'Auction sale, Gunny Bags, China'Navigation

"Star" Ferry Co., Ld, anual meeting, 12.45. p.m.

Tasiday, 24th May, Empire Day, Bark boliday,

Friday, 27th May, Auction rate, bousehold furniture; "Gooll stap," Oonduit Road, a.go p.m.

Saturday, 28th May,

Annual meeting, Peak Tramway Có, noon,

· Gymkhana meeting, Race Cours Hoppy Valloy.

Craigongawar Cricket Club auntzal

CARVED

BLACKWOOD BOOKCASE,

WOOD FLOWER · STANDS, ENGRAV-

ALSO

ONE COTTAGE PIANO by Haake, Hannover;

AND

A Large Quantity of PLANTS ja POTS. Catalogues will be issued.. TERMË :—î usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers.

· Hongkong, 18th May, rero,

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All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.

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No Claims will be admitted after the Good have left the Gedowns.

E. A HEWETT,

Superintendent.. Hongkong, 18th May, we to

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Cargo, impeding the discharge or remaining .on board after 4° P.M., the jist inst,, will be landed at Consigate's risk and expense. No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

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