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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 4] [1920 
XVII.—_ON THE SELECTION OF HEVEA 
BRASILIENSIS. 
In the Kew Bulletin, 1919, p. 317, a review was published of 
the paper by Mr. Stafford Whitby on ‘‘ Variation in Hevea 
brasiliensis.’’ The results of the investigations detailed in this 
very iindly prepared Mr rs. F. R. Durham from the paper 
written in Dutch by Dr. C. Heusser, the botanist on the staff of 
the Rubber Planters’ Association, East Coast of Sumatra at 
Medan, Sumatra, the General Experiment Station of the 
A.V.R.O.S. (Algemeene Vereeniging van Rubberplanters ter 
Oostkust van Sumatra). Dr. J. G. J. Maas, Agricultural 
Assistant at the same station, has also published’a paper on the 
Vegetative Propagation of Hevea in * Archief voor de Rubber- 
cultuur’ ili. no. 7, a translation of which is given in » the Tropical 
Agriculturist, vol. ae no. 1, 1920, p. 2. In this paper the various 
methods of budding, grafting and striking by means of cuttings 
are described in some det 
eusser’s paper is reprinted from the ‘ Archief voor de 
Rubbercultuur,’ vol. iii. part 1, of July Ist, 1919, and is issued 
as a Report ‘from the General Experiment Station of the 
A.V.R.O.S. Rubber Series, no. 21. 
In the year 1914 Dr. Cramer drew attention to the necessity of 
selec Hevea, and urged that further introductions of fal 
worse | should be made from the Amazonian region,* basi 
suggestions on the experience gained in the cultivation of 
* Rubber Recueil. Internat. Rubber Congres. Batavia, 1914, p. 13, and 
Official Report, p. 23. 
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