CONTENTS 



CEYLON AND FEDERATED MALAY STATES 



FIRST LETTER. 



FROM NEW YORK TO CEYLON 



Some Experiences of the Journey ; Opinions of English Manu- 

 facturers Regarding- Ceylon Rubber; Points of Interest 

 in the Tropics; Beautiful Ceylon; A Visit to Typical 

 Hevea Plantations. 



SECOND LETTER. 



RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS AT THE ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS . . 22 



Growth of Hevea and its Yield at Various Ages; Canker 



Fungus and its Treatment; Plantation Scenes. 



THIRD LETTER. 



A VISIT TO THE NEW EXPERIMENT STATION, THEN TO CULLODEN 37 



Tapping Rubber Trees at Peradeniya Garden ; Ficus Elastica 



Seventy-five Years Old; Prospective Increase in Planting; 



Rainfall and Labor ; Some Incidents of Travel ; Library of ' 



Singalese Sacred Literature; The Para Output from 



Ceylon; The Weeding of Crops in the Island. 



FOURTH LETTER. 



SOME PROFITABLE DAYS SPENT AT CULLODEN 40 



Hevea Trees at the Beautifully Laid Out Tea Estate; Night 



Tapping; Results of an Experiment in Scraping the Outer 



Bark from the Trees ; An Oil made from Seeds of The 



Rubber Tree; A Rubber Drying House and Methods 



of Coagulation; Some Valuable Information 



Gleaned from Visits to Other Rubber Plantations. 



FIFTH LETTER. 



FROM CEYLON TO THE MALAY STATES 65 



Arrival at Singapore; A Word About the Seat of 'Govern- 

 ment; Visit to Royal Botanical Gardens; Hevea Re- 

 sponds to Cultivation Here; Phenomenal Growth; Dis- 

 tance Planting; Castilloa and Ceara Less Promising 

 A Visit to Chinese Merchant Quarters Where Gutta 

 Percha is Prepared for European Markets ; Pro- 

 cesses Watched with Interest; From Singapore 

 to Selangor. 



