BRANCH GARDENS.

The Director has also under his charge, as adjuncts
to the Peradeniya Gardens, smaller branch establish-
ments in different climatic districts of Ceylon.
Hakgala Gardens are situated at an elevation of
5,500 feet, about, six miles to the east of Nuwara Eliya
on the road to Badulla. They were opened in 1860 as
a Cinchona nursery. The climate admits of the culti-
vation there of numerous European and Australian
plants, and those of the tropical mountain regions.
Henaratgoda Garden is a completely tropical one,
scarcely above sea level, and in a wet steaming climate
which varies little. It is about three-quarters of a mile
from the Railway Station of the same name on the
Colombo-Kandy Railway. Many of the plants grown
at Peradeniya flourish there with far greater luxuri-
ance, and others can be cultivated there only. It was
opened in 1876.
Anuradhapura Garden.-This is in process of form-
ation at the ancient capital of Ceylon, 90 miles north
of Kandy (74 from Matale), in a district which posses-
ses a hot dry climate with a short rainy season, like the
Carnatic or Coromandel Coast. Here such plants and
crops as are intolerant of continuous and excessive
moisture can be cultivated.

FRANK LUXER, ACTING GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON.

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12 April 1998