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A Blaze of Blossoms
Hong Kong by night is a blaze of colour, dazzling from thousands of street signs. By day there is a greyness in the towering ranks of skyscraper buildings in the busy urban areas. But colour is still there. It bursts out in vivid patches in public gardens on both sides of the harbour. Many of them are tiny pockets of brightness tucked away in busy thoroughfares. Some, like the recently re-planned Statue Square complex, blossom out boldly in the bustling heart of urban areas.
Most of the gardens have emerged in the past six years. In 1960 there were only 35 in the Colony. Today there are 273. The gardens, like the Colony's playgrounds, sportsfields and other facilities, are maintained by the Amenities Division of the Urban Services Depart- ment. To back its campaign to brighten up the colony, the division maintains a herbarium of some 30,800 specimens.
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Hong Kong's national flower, the Bauhinia Blakeana, is named after Sir Henry Blake, a former Governor.
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