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have actually been killed by being planted opm their reach. 
gain, it would not be desirable to form vere in any 
locality where the temperature at any time falls to 60? F 
he tree when fully grown does not exceed a height of eos 
sixty feet, and the largest trunk measured by Mr. e TOSS Was 8 
feet ten inches i in circumference at a yard from the 
the upright habit of ~ tree it will not be aiiiar ls plant at 
any great distance apart 
COLLECTION OF RUBBER. 
Several vedete have been given of this ; the fullest is that of 
Mr. saw in practice the methods opago in t 
jelah baT UN of Lent His deboription (p. 4) is as follows :— 
I do not attach much importance to this statement, but I have 
recorded it. Another and more probable reason is that as rain 
often falls about two or three o'clock in the afternoon the apotik 
must be done early, as in the event of a shower the milk would 
be spattered about and 1 m The collector, first of all, at the 
he r 
a esi are, where necessary, replace pr ceeding to his work 
the collector takes with him a small axe for tapping, cu a wicker 
basket containing a good-sized ball of well wrought clay. He 
usually has likewise a bag for the waste droppings, and for what 
m to the bottoms of the cups. These se promiscuous 
gatherings are termed sernamby, and form the * negrohead ' of the 
English market. The cups, as already stated, are of bu lay, 
and are E pisce but more frequently flat or slightly 
concave on one side, 80 as "to stick easily with a small portion x 
clay teid against the trunk of the tree. The contents of fif 
cups make one English imperial pint. Arriving at a tree the 
collector takes the axe in his right hand, and, striking in an 
upward direction as high as he can reach, makes a deep a 
and penetrates an inch or more into the wood. The cut is an 
inch in breadth. Frequently a small portion of bark breaks off 
from the upper side, and occasionally a thin splinter of wood is 
also raised. Quickly stooping down he takes a cup, and, pasting 
na 
‘Close beneath the cut. By this time the milk, which is of dazzling 
whiteness, is beginning to exude, so that if requisite he so smooths 
the clay that it may trickle direct into the cup. At a distance 
of four or five inches, but at the same height, another cup is luted 
on, and so the process is co ntinued until a row of cups encircle 
the tree at the height of about six feet from the ground. Tree 
after tree is aes in like manner, until the tapping required for 
the day is finished. This work should be concluded by nine or 
ten o'elock in the morning, because the milk continues to exude 
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