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MYSORE. 
The results of experiments with Ceara rubber plants in Mysore 
are summed up by Mr. J. Cameron, F.L.S, in his Report on the 
Lal Bagh Bardens dated April 12, 1886 :— 
r experience has justified my opinion that the Ceara 
rubber ies is adapted to the climate. Its cultivation progresses 
80 favourably that every encouragement is offered to plant on an 
tree requires no pampered treatment, although, like most planta, 
it E a little kindness to starvation and utter neglect. It A iis 
ry season. This is what [ have ten with a hundred seedlings 
six months old, on poor gravelly soil, and I am certain that nearly 
^ : 
The vine of the c conu year contains further information 
as under :— 
se ball of Ceara rubber, weighing 6 ozs., has been col- 
lected from one or two trees in the garden (chiefly Rm tree 
which was growing by a channel and had not lost its leaves, as 
the trees invariably do in dry ground during the months of 
e have collected 17 lbs. of Ceara seeds for pro- 
BURMA. 
Colonel E. S. Berkeley, Rangoon, reported in 1884 that * The 
plants of Manihot Glaziovii received from Dr. King in 1879 are 
growing into robust trees. The climate of Burma seems to suit 
this plant; it seeds freely." 
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 
Ceara rubber were introduced into the Malay Archipelago 
in 1879, but owing initis to the Vases d damp climate they 
anywhere. Mr. H. N. R 
nerative cultivation in Singapore, and a similar 
