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of 10(J2 (continued). Educational and General Papers. Price 0(7. Post free 8i/ each. No. 3. Sugar Industry, 



Scale Insects, SjUjoI Gardens, O'.iject Lissous, Volcanic Phenomena, Groundnuts etc., (in the press.) 



PAMPHLET^ERIES. 



(3.) Seedlin<4 and otlier Canes at Barbados I'.M Ml. Price 2./. Post free 2f,(/. (.5.) General Treatment of Insect Pests, 

 2nd Edition" Revised. Price 4/ ^ Post free 4iil. (0.) Recipes for cooking Sweet Potatos. Price 2(1. Post free 2hf. 

 (7.) Scale Insects of the Lesser Antilles. Price 4(/. Post free 5<?. (8.) Cultivation of Vegetables in Barbados. Price 2d. 

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 and other Canes in the Leeward Islands, 1'.K)0-]!I01. Price 2./. Post free 2hl. (i:5.) Seedlings and other Canes at Barba- 

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 Talk to Small Owners. Price 2./. Post free 2,^//. (l(i) Hints on Onion Cultivation, Price 2d. Post free 2A//. (17) General 

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 (10.) Seedling and other Canes at Barbados, in 1002. Price id. Post free od. (20.) Seedling and other Canes in the Leeward 

 ishmds. Price 2d. Post free 2ld. 



' NATURE TEACHING.' A te.xt book based upon the general principles of Agriculture for the use of schools. 

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Ag'ents for the sale of tlie publications of the Department : — 

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 The Eiirc.vTioXAL Supply Company, 10, King St., Kingston. British, Guiana: The 'Daily Chronicle Office, Georgetown. 

 Trinidad: Messrs. Munro, & Co., Frederick St, Port-of-Spain. Toi'iKr/o .■ Mr. C. L. Pl.-voemann, Scarliorough. Grenada: Messrs. 

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TO THE 

 PLANTING WORLD. 



Seeds & Plants of Comniercial Products. 



HEiVEA BPviASILIENSIS. Coming crop of seeds August-Seiitemljer sliipment. .\s orders must reacli us at 

 least at the end of July to avoid disapi«iintinent, ordering by wire necessary on the aiipearance of this advertisement. There is 

 only one crop in the year. .\ leading Sumatra planter who purchased 150.000 seeds on two ]irevious occasions writes under date 

 May 10, 1002 : ' I shall like to have your lowest terms for delivery of 100,000 Hevea seeds in the same way as before from the 

 coming crop.' 75 ,^ guaranteed to germinate. Shipments to West Indies can be made to London only: re-shipment must be 

 arranged by purchasers. 



For special offer of seeds and jilants see the following descriptive Pi-ice Lists, post free on aiiidication. 



1. Tro]iical Seeds and Plants of Commercial Products, enlarged edition for 1002. 



2. Seeds and Plants of Shade, Timber, Wind-belts, Fuel, and Ornamental Trees, Trees for Road-sides, Parks, Open 

 Sjiaces, Pasture Lands, Avenues, Hedges, and for iilanting among crops (Tea, Coffee, Cacao, Cardamons, etc.) 



3. Seeds and Plants of Tropical Fruit Trees iiitduding Mango grafts. 4. Bulbs, Tubers and Yams. 



5. Orchids— Ceylon and Indian. G. Seeds and Pl.uits of Palms, Calamus, Pandanus, Cycads, Tree and other Ferns, 

 Crotons, Roses, Dracaenas, Shrubs and Creepers. 



SPECLVL .M!i;.\NCiEMEXTS made with foreign Oovemments, Botanical and Agricultural Departments, 

 Planters, and otliers for supplying seeds and plants of Commercial Products in large ipiantities. 



AGAVE LURIDA. This highly reconiinended fibre yiehling plant yields a fibre ecpial to that of Si'ml in lustre 

 and tensile strength valued at from £26 to £34 per ton in London. Bulbils (.seedlings) £1 i>er 100, £8 per 1,000 post free: 

 special ipKitations for large orders. 



COFFEE. Arabica-Liberian Hybiid and Maragogipe Hybrid— New croii March-Aiiril, 1903: early booking 

 necessary. 



X Foreign Agricultural Department writes dating 0th September, 1001 :— "Please accept our order for 175 lb. of Tea 

 seed and for 2,000 Coftee lieans. In regard to Coffee seed I would say that this will be the tirst importation made Ijy this 

 Department, and we will leave the selection of the varieties to be sent to your judgement." 



"SOUTH AFRICA."— The great authority on South African affairs of 25th March, 1890, says :— .In interesting 

 Catalogue reaches us from the East. It is issued by William Brothers, Tropical Seed Merchants of Henaratgoda, Ceylon, 

 and schedules all the useful and beautiful plants which will thrive in tropical and semi-troiiical regions. We fancy Messrs. Williams 

 shoidd do good business, for now that the great jiowers have grabbed all the waste places of the earth, they must turn to and 

 prove that they were worth the grabbing. We recommend the great Powers and Concessionaries under them to go to William 

 Brothers." 



Agents in London : Messrs. P. W. Woolley & Co., 90, Lo-wer Thames Street. 

 Telegraphic Address ; William He.naratgoda, Ceylon. J. P. WILLIAM & BROTHERS, 



[14.] Lieber's, A.T.J: A. B.C., Codes used. Tropical Seed Merchants, Henaratgoda, Ceylon. 



