RUBBER AND RUBBER PLANTING 



Rubber and Rubber Planting. By 

 Board oj Agriculture and Fisheries 

 Gardens, Ce\lon. 



R. H. Loci, Sc.D., Inspector H.M. 

 sometime Assistant Director of Botanic 



Crown 8vo. pp. xiii + 245. With 10 plates and 18 text-figures. 

 Price 5i. net 



"Nowadays," says Dr Lock in his Prt'/(7fc, "rubber enters so intimately 

 into the daily life of almost everyone, that there will probably be few to 

 whom the romance of rubber entirely fails to make an appeal." 



To make the book suitable to as wide a circle of readers as possible the 

 author has aimed at combining an accurate account of the scientific side ot 



Hcvid Rubber and Tea 



rubber planting with a certain amount of practical information for the 

 benefit of the prospective planter. 



The chapter-headings are as follows : The History of the Use and 

 Cultivation of Rubber, The Botanical Sources of Rubber, The Physiology 

 of Latex Production, Tapping Experiments, Hevea Planting Operations, 

 Harvesting Operations, Factory Work on the Estate, The Pests and 

 Diseases of Hevea, The Cultivation of Species other than Hevea Brasi- 

 liensis. The Chemistry of India-Rubber, The Manufacture of Rubber 

 Goods. 



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