Orchard Road
Two-kilometre shopping corridor built on the ruins of a nineteenth-century nutmeg plantation.
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Before the malls, Orchard Road in Singapore ran through nutmeg plantations, and this guide follows the planters who worked them in the mid-nineteenth century, among them the government surgeon Thomas Oxley and the postal clerk William Cuppage on nearby Emerald Hill. It turns on a dispute between the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and the Botanic Gardens director Henry Ridley over why the trees began to fail. Best heard walking slowly, with the shopfronts in view.
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