DEPARTMENTAL NOTICES. 



Requests for yams should be received not later than early 

 September. 



Plants of the Avocado or Alligator Pear — Persea gratissima, — 

 and Brazil nut — BertJiolleiia excelsa, — to be sold within the Penin- 

 sula at fifty cents each. 



Seeds of Ilevea hrasiliensis — Para Rubber — as available from 

 trees, twenty-eight years old, to be sold at three dollars per 

 thousand up to the number of ten thousand, and at two dollars and 

 fifty cents for every further thousand on the same order. 



The Gardens' Bulletin is published as material becomes available. 

 Its price is fifty cents a copy, post free, or in advance for a volume 

 of twelve numbers, post free, 



Five dollars in tlie Straits and Federated Malay States. 



Nine and a half rupees in India and Ceylon. 



Thirteen shillings in Europe. 



