32 RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 



Polgahawela and Rambukkana, by the side of the track, is a very con- 

 siderable plantation of Hevea, covering some sixty acres, the trees being 

 planted about eight feet apart. They are about three years old, and 

 would average, for a guess, thirty feet in height. 



Further on, as we still ascended, the valley below was often a series 

 of terraced paddy plots for miles. Then as we still skirted the valley, 



PERArENIYA GARDEN. 



[Mr. Carruthers inoculating a young Hei'ea with Canker.] 



which was farther and farther below us, we crept through many tunnels, 

 clung to the sides of precipices, getting occasional glimpses of Adam's 

 Peak, the famous mountain of the island, and still far below, we saw 

 winding through the jungle crossing rivers the white roads, hard, 

 smooth, wide, equal to any park roads at home, and then up, up, we 

 climbed, the cabbage palms, bread fruit trees, and tropical growths now 

 finding their home on the rocks, or in the wash of steep mountain ravines. 



