THURSDAY, JUNE 25. AFTERNOON SESSION, 



2.30 P.M. 



Section I. Rubber. 



Chairman: SIR EDWARD ROSLING, Chairman-elect of the 

 Ceylon Association in London. 



THE CHAIRMAN : Gentlemen We have a great deal of work 

 to get through this afternoon, and I think you all realize that 

 in order to get through it we shall have to limit the papers to 

 a certain length of time a quarter of an hour and the contri- 

 butions to the subsequent discussions to five minutes. I will 

 first call upon Mr. Simpson, the Director of Agriculture of 

 Uganda, to read a paper on Hevea brasiliensis in Uganda. 



THE CULTIVATION OF HEVEA BRASILIENSIS IN 

 UGANDA. 



By SAMUEL SIMPSON, B.Sc., 

 Director of Agriculture, Uganda. 



[ABSTRACT.] 



This rubber tree is the one being most largely planted in 

 Uganda at the present time, and coffee is planted as a catch- 

 crop generally. 



The tree grows well in height, but slowly in thickness, for 



two or three years, but then thickens fairly -rapidly, and at five 



years old a girth measurement of 16 in. is fairly common; 



such trees can be lightly tapped. 



.The oldest trees in the country are in the Botanical Gardens, 



