-AND THE MALAY STATES 



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THIRD LETTER. 



TAPPING RUBBER TREES AT PERADENIYA GARDEN VISIT TO THE NEW EXPERI- 

 MENT STATION SEVENTY-FIVE YEAR OLD Ficus ELASTICA THE STUMP SPEECH 

 KANDY TEMPLE OF THE SACRED TOOTH HOTEL TIPS ON THE WAY TO KALATURA 

 EARLY TEA AT THE "REST HOUSE" M^. HARRISON AND CULLODEN ESTATE. 



SPEAKING again of canker, and the absence of the disease on the 

 South American Hevea trees, Mr. Carruthers said that it was 

 quite possible that individual trees there might have been attacked 

 by it, but as the trees are wild, and grow singly, the disease, after exhaust- 

 ing its victim, would probably die out, as it would have no other Hevea 



SATIN WOOD BRIDGE, PERADENIYA. 



near enough to reach. This, of course, led up to what has been proved 

 since planting of any sort has been carried on on any considerable scale. 

 That is, the occurrence of diseases and insects unknown before, but which 

 found in great plantings of a single kind the most favorable field for 

 rapid growth and reproduction. 



