RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 



or grass growing in the dense shade they cast. The trees looked very 

 healthy, with smooth bark and straight limbs, the branches appearing 

 about thirty feet from the ground. There were about three hundred 

 trees in this lot. They have been tapped experimentally a few times, but 

 they are kept as seed bearers rather than rubber producers. The soil 



PERADENIYA GARDEN. 



[Castilloa clastica planted among cocoanut palms.] 



is gravelly, but seems to grow almost anything. The land is but thirty- 

 three feet above the sea level, and the annual rainfall less than one 

 hundred inches. 



Not far from "here is the oldest planting of Hevca at this place. 

 These are trees about thirty years old. They are fine specimens, with 

 massive trunks three or more feet in diameter. As a rule the trunks 



