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wind-belts to those Hevea plantations which at 

 present have to make such an awful fight for exist- 

 ence in the hill districts of Ceylon and Southern 

 India. It grows rapidly and yields, at an earlier age 

 than is possible in the case of the Hevea, a fine trans- 

 lucent, resilient product that will always find a ready 

 demand in the markets of the world. 



