90 
that year they were for the most part sown in nurseries, and the 
young plants distributed in Ceylon to Government officers and a 
few planters for trial. But as soon as larger crops of seed were 
produced we were able to comply with official requests for seed 
from other Colonies (see below), and I was able also to advertise 
their sale at a low price to the planting community generally. 
Thus we have distributed in Ceylon :— 
Seeds, 
1889 ` ‘ = 8,000 
1891 : . i « aoe 
1892 ; 4 : --- 16,000 
1893 . E ir - . 90,000 
MeL e CUL M IL BEAD 
“A large number of estates in the low country have now 
plantations of young seedling trees, and some must be themselves 
producing see 
the Province of Sabaragamuwa. In 1890 a small commencement 
“Mr. F. Lewis of the Forest Department (under whose charge 
the plantation is placed), has kindly given me a full report of the 
progress of the trees, from which I extract the following parti-’ 
culars. The land selected in May, 1890, is at a place called 
alu i i 
selected at a place called Yattipowa, 37 acres in extent, at a rather 
higher level on the same river, and not liable to flood, being 
raised in the centre, and sloping east and west; this was planted 
up in the same manner. It was necessary to weed carefully for 
the first two years, after which the young trees produced sufficient 
leaf-canopy to keep this vegetation down. They grew at a great 
pace, some reaching 16 feet high in the first year, branching 
