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taken from a tree growing in the Botanie Garden, the quantity 
collected amounting to three pounds. One sample had been 
coagulated with, and the other without, alum, but both were dried 
by fire heat. Accompanying the samples was a bag of chips or 
shavings of the wood of the rubber tree, containing a quantity of 
the coagulated juice; it was thought that they might prove a 
marketable article for the extraction of the rubber. All the 
samples were submitted to Messrs. Hecht, Levis, and Kahn, the 
well-known rubber brokers of Mincing Lane, who er furnished 
the following report under date February 3rd, “Phe 
rubber shavings are almost valueless, containing as one do only 
small traces of rubber. We estimate the value of these meen 
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the two small cakes you have sent us. The treatment of No. 1 
with alum does not in any way interfere with the quality.’ 
lah, ge oe ak RP acl NA ern 
Para Rubber in Perak.—The experimental cultivation of Para 4 
Rubber in the d l1 has been discussed in the Kew — - 
Bulletin, - 1898, pp. 2 4. 
The following a gives a higher valuation for the produce 
of the trees grown in Perak than that already quoted. 
THE SS ME Ser GOVERNMENT Dore Cue PERAK, to 
E SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, PER 
Government Plantations Office 
Taiping, October x 1898. 
1 "have the honour to forward herewith a copy of the corre- 
spondence in connection with a parcel of Para Rubber (208 pounds 
sheet, and 8 qe scrap), prepared at Kuala Kangsar, and sent 
home for sale 
The correspondence is interesting, as it shows market value - 
of Para Rubber grown in Malaya. The parcel realised $293.90, 
exclusive of charges. E 
The Rubber was valued at about 3s. 5d. per pound, but sold for I 
3s. 1d. owing to the cost of analysis 
The analysis showed a loss of 26] per cent. in washing, but the 
manufacturers think that if sent home in bulk, the loss would | 
per cent as a large quantity could not be sent home 
so dry. 
I have, &e., 
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Superintendent of PE em 
Mauritius Tea.—The cultivation of tea in Mauritius, has. pe 
_ discussed in the Kew Bulletin for February, 1887, p. 7 ; and Ee 
