Title
The Singapore Botanic Gardens
Year/Period
Late 19th century
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Object size: 22.2 x 27.9 cm
Accession No.
1994-05104
Collection of
NLB Type
Photograph
The Botanic Gardens was first established by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1822 on Government Hill (Fort Canning) for growing cash crops. The Gardens was closed shortly after–in 1829–due to the lack of efficient management. The current Gardens at Tanglin was opened by the Agri-Horticultural Society in 1859, after a donation of 32 hectares of land by the wealthy Chinese merchant, Whampoa. Management of the Gardens was handed over to the colonial government in 1874 and it was then that it began to adopt its present-day functions of being a public park and a botanical research facility.
