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expressed in regard to the prospects in the Native States. It is 
ssible, as in Ceylon, that the best rubber plant for regular 
cultivation in Malaya is the Para rubber tree et Hevea brasiliensis). 
MAURITIUS. 
The — bee qs partieulars respecting the pe 
of Ceara rubber trees in Mauritius in 1883 were communicated by 
the late Mr. Scot | 
the Gardens, Pamplemousses, than in any other locality. An 
experiment was made n. the roes of three years’ growth shed 
their pt n transplan These were lifted carefully, 
but with t balls of nuns Saaki to the roots, and planted in 
another ind of the plantation; these transplants all held, and 
although they have not made such a strong growth as the other 
trees, it proves that this tree can be transplanted with impunity." 
Further, Mr. Scott states :— 
* During the season when the Ceara rubber trees were at rest, 
— were cut back to about three feet from the ground, and the 
: me of which were 8 feet long, cut into lengths of 
6 inches and tied up in grass-enveloped balls of earth, and 
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permane -— By this method 5,800 cuttings were propagated ; 
these were then ‘Aivided amongst the plantations in the lower 
parts of fe island.” 
SEYCHELLES. 
Mr. E. H. Edwards wrote on the Ist July, 1885 :— 
* Ceara rubber I pronounce a great success, both cuttings and 
criterion, in the not distant future Mahé should be a rubber- 
producing country.” 
ZANZIBAR. 
The following extract is taken from a Report on the cultivation 
of Ceara rubber trees in Zanzibar by Sir John Kirk, dated 
no a 19th, Hes (F. O. Reports. Commercial, No. 11, 1885, 
pp. 38 
“Five years ago I received from the Director of the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, in exchange for plants of our African india-rubbers 
of = genus Landolphia, other sorts ot SE SET plants, 
among which was the Ceara rubber, Manihot Gla 
m Dra I find grows here with the wit amus and 
propagates itself freely in the worst soil. It is only now, however, 
T have ape able to obtain a sample of the india-rubber likely to 
be ced, and on which the value of the- new introduction 
entirely potion I find that trees only begin to yield when five 
years old, and no doubt these are even then too small to be 
remunerative. 
