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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1911. 



used a liniment that one of the planters had in stock. It killed 

 the parasites promptly, but it didn't stop there. It searched 

 nit through and through, iienetratiiig, burning until it finally 



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Wild "S.^pium" on Boston Rubber Est.\tes. 



exhausted itself, except for the smell it left behind. It was 

 fine, one felt so warm and comfortable when the ache stopped. 

 I was therefore able as an expert on tropical itches to diagnose 



Professor J. B. Harrison at the Head of an E-Xtloring Party. 



seems the most valuable. I had often wondered why Professor 

 Harrison and the very alert and scholarly Assistant Director of 

 Science and Agriculture, F, A. Stockdale, paid so much atten- 

 tion to it. Nor was I enlightened when I saw the specimen 

 planted by Jenman in the Botanical Gardens. It looked so 

 scraggly and sickly, and was such a pitiful object. But when I 



Ta['1'In-g "Saimu.m" with L.mjdek. 



my friends' ailment and prescribe a remedy, not the liniment, 

 however. 



Speaking of trees indigenous to British Guiana, that is, rub- 

 ber trees, the Sapium Jenmani, called by the natives Touckpong, 



"Sapium Jenmani" on Lower Essequibo. 



saw a wild specimen, in soil adapted for it, a fine straight 

 forest tree at least three feet in diameter, I began a revision of 

 my prior prejudices. Then, too, it develops that it is one of 

 those trees than can be tapped far up on the trunk, and the 



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