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lead into the Klang and the Damansara River. The oldest planting was 

 made in May, 1898, and was 24X36 feet, this planting being quincunxed 

 in the latter part of the same year and in October, 1900, was still further 

 interplanted. The last planting, however, is so thoroughly shaded by the 

 earlier that it is doubtful if it amounts to anything. The trees in the 



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first planting average 28^ inches in circumference, three feet from the 

 ground, the largest being forty-seven and 52^ inches in circumference. 

 Of the plantings already mentioned, there were ninety acres 24X36 

 feet, and forty-five acres 14X14. These latter showed an average of 

 inches circumference at the base, and nineteen inches five feet from 



