Rubber+and+Orchids+-+Info.

...from the Singapore Story exhibition.


 * [|Scroll down to find the stamp] and information about Miss Joaquim for this link.


 * She was born on the April 7, 1854.
 * She was known as breeding the hybrid Orchid.
 * She was the finder of the Orchid in Singapore.
 * In 1981 Miss. Agnes was proclaimed as the Singapore national flower.
 * She found out that the Orchid can grow up to 40cm to 50cm.
 * She was selected as the Singapore National flower on 15 April 1981.
 * She was first discovered in the Singapore garden in 1893.
 * It can bear up to 12 buds.

Here is a link with [|more information about this woman]....


 * He was the first the scientifict director of the Bontanic gardens.
 * The rubber trees were brought and planted 12 years before Ridely even came to Singapore.
 * He also spent many years trying to make the rubber trees really populaur.
 * Was born in England in Norfolk, on the 10th of December 1855.
 * Because of his discoverys he was named father of the rubber industry.
 * Ridley was sent to Singapore to be the director of the Bontanic gradens.
 * He also found out a way to get the rubber from the trees without, actually killling the tree.