SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS
Botanic Gardens, Singapore, founded by the local Agri-Horticultural Society in 1859. The experimental planting of rubber trees here during the 1890s and early 1900s, started by its first Director Henry Nicholas Ridley, became the basis for Southeast Asia's rubber industry.
c.1900
19980005107 - 0116
S1074
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Andrew Tan Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore
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Botanic Gardens, Singapore, founded by the local Agri-Horticultural Society in 1859. The experimental planting of rubber trees here during the 1890s and early 1900s, started by its first Director Henry Nicholas Ridley, became the basis for Southeast Asia's rubber industry.

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