peredenia

Updated: April 30, 2025

One should be attached to the botanical gardens at Peredenia, and instruction should be given to enable every school to perform its own experiments in agriculture.

Sir Samuel White Baker - Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon

We have, indeed, and much good they should do, if conducted upon the principle of developing local resources; but this would entail expense, and, like everything in the hands of government, it dies in its birth for want of consistent management. With an able man as superintendent at a good salary, the beautiful gardens at Peredenia are rendered next to useless for want of a fund at his disposal.

Sir Samuel White Baker - Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon