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The latest information available on the subject is irr in 
the Report of the Nilambur Teak Plantations, 1895 (Appendix C., 
. 69). The following remarks (quoted from ira S Citar. 
No. 8 of 1897, issued by the Reporter on Economic Products to 
the Government of India) appear under Exotic Plantations— 
Rub 
ki "t oed king.—The rubber is quite out of place in the middle 
of a teak plantation, even should it prove itself of any commercial 
value e soil occupied is some of the most valuable in the 
citations Fesin are now being conducted in tapping 
the rubber, and, as far ey have eoe show little prospect of 
any material revenue ee realised. iggest trees are now 
y 20 old, and each covers the pes es is two 
six years (even this is very doubtful), and the result expressed in 
current coin would compare very unfavourably with the value of 
two teak trees of the same age. 
“ Probably the most paying thing to do would be to fell this 
area in 1895, clean and to plant it up with teak. In order, how- 
ever, that the success or failure of the rubber growing may be 
proved, it is proposed to clean and fell at the end of the first 
rotation in 1900, when very few clean saplings x gaai size will 
be available, and plant up the whole area with tea 1901. This 
compartment will then work into the iege circle. ” 
In 
Teak Plantation, the Taapsee of Fore in India 
Mr. B. Ribbentrop (Indian Forester, 1898, p. 168) discusses the 
suggestions for cutting out the rubber trees as follo 
* It would appear that the experiments puce se with the 
introduction of rubber-yielding tr have en un- 
successful, but I feel nevertheless disinclined to agree in the 
proposal that the experiments of making the Nilambur Basin an 
To me it seems that the Nilambur Basin is eminently adapted for 
the growth of riego rie d plants, and the facility of export 
demand for babes: and its price, are deed protic at 
would strongly advise that experiments zr be continued till 
the most suitable rubber-yielding tree m whic ll 
grow in DM not required for the toaa of the teak 
plantatio: 
PARA RUBBER IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 
Plants of Para rubber were forwarded direct from Kew to 
Singapore in 1876. In 1877 Mr. Murton reported : “ Our climate 
is evidently suited for the growth of Hevea, judging by the 
progress the plants sent last year have made." Some of these 
aere were afterwards introduced to P erak, where, in 1879, 
Mr. (now Sir Hugh) Low reported : * The Heveas are 12 to 14 feet 
high. They take to the country immensely." 
