446 FETCH : 



In 1882 several trees fruited at Kuala Kangsar, and eighteen 

 seeds were sent to Ceylon ; these, however, were unfortunatelj- 

 dead on arrival. The official report on the Perak Plantations 

 for 1882 records ^ that seeds were distributed to Java, 

 Smgapore, Cej^lon, and India ; and Ridley '^ states that 

 Smgapore received fifty seeds from Perak in that year. 



H. Cottam has recorded that he packed a box of Hevea 

 plants at Kuala Kangsar, for Madras, Christmas, 1882.^ 



In Ceylon, one tree flowered in 1880, but, as in Perak, no 

 seeds were produced. The conductor of the Henaratgoda 

 Gardens, when forwarding to Trimen fresh flowers in 1881, 

 wrote that they were "from the tree which flowered last year." "* 

 This Henaratgoda tree bore nine seeds in May, 1881, and two 

 seedlings were raised from them, but in 1882 only 36 seeds 

 were obtained. Li that year the plantation was thinned out 

 in the hope of inducing a greater production of flowers. In 



1883 nme trees flowered at Henaratgoda, and 266 seedhngs 

 were raised, part of these being distributed in Ceylon. In 



1884 the Peradeniya trees began to yield seed, and over 1,000 

 seedhngs were raised at Henaratgoda.^ 



The course of events in Ceylon was thus identical with that 

 in Perak. In both countries the trees first flowered in 1880, 

 but did not produce seed, ripe seed being obtained for the first 

 time in 1881. 



It may be noted that at the Government Plantation at 

 Edangoda, trees planted (seed in baskets) in 1891 fruited in 

 1893, two years from the germination of the seed.^ 



In Singapore the trees were transplanted in 1878 into more 

 swampy ground, according to the ideas of Cross's report, and 

 theii- gro\vi>h was thereby retarded. The Singapore report for 

 1881 records that propagation by cuttings was still being 

 attempted, but that they were so unsuccessful that it was 

 resolved not to retard the trees by further cutting, but to 

 encourage them to grow quickly and " look forward to the 



> "Tropical Agriculturist," III., p. 407, tx " Straits Times." 



8 BuUoUn, F. M. S., IV., p. 3. 



» "Tropical AgricuKurist," III., p. 157. 



* Letter in Punidoniya lilo. 



» Annual Reports, Royal JJotanic Gardens, Coylon. 



' Report, Forest Department, Ceylon, 1894, 



