488 PETCH : 



Seeds from Mergui were planted at Bhamo in 1889 by C. W. 

 Palmer. The seedlings were planted out by Hearsay in the 

 following year, along the road from the Forest House to the 

 Bhamo Fort. 



In 1899 a small area was opened at Kambe near Rangoon 

 as a combined rubber estate and sewage farm. The seeds 

 were apparently obtained from Mergui in 1900. In 1901 

 there were 2,159 Hevea and 502 Ceara on an area of 27 acres 

 {T. A., XXI., pp. 303-7). In 1902 this was said to have been 

 taken over by the Forest Department from the Cantonment 

 Committee, who had previously had charge of it {T. A., XXII., 

 ]). 0)06) ; but according to an account of the plantation 

 jiublished by Lt. -Colonel Wyhe in 1909, it was still in charge 

 of the Committee. The number of Hevea in 1909 was 6,160. 



X. — Penang. 



Hevea was planted in the Waterfall nursery, Penang, in 

 1884, presumably from Singapore. Seeds were sent there 

 from Cej'lon in 1887. Very few trees appear to have survived, 

 the whole seed crop in 1897 being 600. Penang Ls chiefly to be 

 remembered as the scene of Curtis's tapping experiments. 



XI. — Andamans. 



The consignments to the Andamans have ah"eady been 

 mentioned. The Deputy Conservator of Forests, Port Blair, 

 has kindly furnished the following information, under date 

 January 23, 1914, concerning the rubber ti-ees now growing 

 there : — 



There are 30 Para rubber trees (Hevea hrasiliensis) planted 

 cast of iho NaiTiunnfj;har main rond ()]iposite tlio ap])roacli rood 

 to tlie vc'j.'cta]jlc <rardon. Some of these were the first trees to be 

 ta]>|)ed by Mr. Jvi'lly. They ajjpcar to be of diffcroiit ages, and 

 tlnTc is no cl(!ar record of wliat was done witli them. 



Apjiareiitly 2S slDeks or stiimjis were: received from Ceylon 

 and planted aliont Sej^tember, 1S81 (Annual Report, Port Blair 



Settlement, for ISKl-2) The report for 1883-4 shows that 



tliey had rea<;lied a height of over 20 feet, and mentions that some 

 cutting's (7 stumps) were put down in .Fainiary (? 1884). It 

 would a|)pi'ar that altogether some 40 plants were put out. 



Thiw small |ilan1atioti was made over to the Forest Depart 

 ment in 1904-r). " t<)>;ether with 9,207 Ceara trees," according 

 to the report of the Settlement, but no mention of this fact is made 



