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south of Britain are missing. The fruits and spices found are 
only such as can be grown commercially in Britain at the present 
day, and this makes it probable that the abundant fig and grape 
seeds belong to fruit grown in this country and not imported in a 
dried state. Mulberries do not travel well — are scarcely ever 
dried ; they must have been grown at Silchest 
A NEw and enlarged edition was aaa last year of Mr. 
A. H. Johnson’s work on The Cultivation and Preparation of Para 
Rubber (Crosby Lockwood & Co.), the previous edition of which 
was noticed on p. 39 of this Journal for 5. e methods of 
cultivation and preparation for the market of Hevea brasiliensis 
are still being evolved and improved, and no one with experience 
of its planting will contend that the present methods can be 
looked upon as final or perfect. r. Johnson’s book is a careful 
ra ra n of the observations and experiments carried on in the 
East Indies, but it is to be regretted that the statistics which 
form a considerable part of the volume should be out of date or 
obsolete. Thus the acreage for the ager Peninsula is give 
241,000. The work will be of use to those considering the 
peter of embarking in the rubber industry, but the estimates 
given as to the cost of opening and maintaining land in the East 
are waite as they are some years old an nd the figures as to 
rent and other charges are inaccurate, the rents per acre in Mr. 
Arden’s prema for the Malay States being now og times the 
amount given there. The book is intended for the planter or 
the inbeboe: sad the scien 
sarge ys but there ive information of an interesting er in 
name is perhaps more fan iar to hortic ee 
although the latter are sabiod. te to her a a number of rare 
‘eresti 
duce to cultivation. The pictures, beautiful in themselves, are 
admirably reproduced, and by their size give a better idea of the 
scenes they depict and of the plants they represent than is usual 
in books containing views of gardens. There is no text bevond 
the dedication—* To My a ee table of contents, but the 
illustrations seas no arp on 
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