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Gold Coast.—In the report on the Botanic Station at Aburi for 
1894 the vie States, * rubber plants, especially Para rubber, 
are making good progress. Some of the trees only 18 months' 
growth are 10 ‘feat high and have stems 3 inches in diameter,” 
Lagos.—In Mr. Millen’s Report on the Botanic Station for the 
quarter ending 30th September, 1895, mention is made of Hevea 
spruceana but none of A. brasiliensis. The former is described 
as having done “fairly well.” In the Report for the year 1897 
eeds of Hevea brasiliensis are acknowledged as having been 
aired from Kew 
Para rubber trees have been introduced to French and German 
possessions in West Africa. They are Fees, as having done 
well in some localities in the Cameroons, and opted du to the 
T'ropenpflanzer rubber has already bia obtained from them 
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Jamaica.—Seedling trees of Para rubber thave existed at the 
Castleton Gardens, Jamaica, since 1882. In the Bulletin of the 
Botanieal Department, 1894, p. 104, Mr. abies the Director of 
Publie Gardens and Plantations, states 
=>‘ There are young trees at both the asilih and Hope Gardens, 
but they have not yet yielded any rubber. The bark is about 
4 inch thick, and the lactiferous vessels lie in the inner half of the 
bark. From examination made in the Gardens, it would appear 
that this tree end succeed only in Jamaica grown as a forest tree 
wet. is q 
than the rainfall, an E that the tree might be grown in the swamps 
along the South Co oast 
Dominica.—In the eons = the Botanic Station at Dominica 
for 1896 it is Senge * We have now all the best kinds of rubber 
trees, viz., Hevea, Castilloa, Tics; Manihot, and Kic RG. 4 4 
The plants of Howe and Kickzia are still small." 
St. Vincent.—According to the Report on es Botanic Station a 
St. Vincent for the quarter ending 30th of June, 1891, six plain 
this experiment. The Central America noe tree (Castilloa 
elastica) is said to be doing very well in St. Vincent, 
Grenada.—The Para rubber tree is recorded as under cultivation 
at the Botanic Station, Grenada, in a list published in September, 
1893. In 1895 it was in flower and fruit, 
Trin er —In the Annual Report for the year 1897 on the 
Royal Botanie Gardens at Trinidad, Mr. Hart, the Superintendent, 
states 4 the Heveas or the Brazilian and Demerara rubbers are 
siz o bleed so freely as C 
they grow so Miren d but they have the advantage of 
able to rm in places where Castilloa could not thrive. Trees of 
are present in de Garden and annually give us seed in 
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