T fruits, of all A MOM MCN 
n: 2 x appears to Mos watered upon his investigations ons w 
i and en if o; 
ww sen 
then hid on for 12 or 24 hours, eue then the iar is At Ai ou, when 
it will be found ready for shipme 
The muslin strainer is very sail kept in * it need only be turned 
over Pa water poured through it from ah 
present, owing to the rains ceasing p the sap of he tbe. 
drying up, little or no milk can be ob tained, although I have mip: 
my price to 4d. a bottle ; what little I did get was not good, and I foun 
it useless.. 
If one could only induce the natives to collect the milk, a large trade 
might.be done; but ihey are intolerably lazy, an do not care to 
bottle, sayiug they preferred doing nothing at home ; and when I 
to the Chiefs about their lazy habits, which could Me lead eni nto’ 
mischief, they confessed that these young men an 
exercise their authority, and do their best to assist tthe "District Commis- id 
sioner, it will be hard work. 
Roxan Garpens, Kew, to the COLONIAL Orrick, ` 
Šik Roy Gardens, Kew, 21 1 Ap ril 1890. 
— 1 Ax desired by Mr. "Thiselton Dyer to acknowledge rhe receipt 
of your letter of the- 22nd January last, forwarding a copy of a despa 
from the Officer Adniinistering the Government of Logos, on tl 
of forty pounds of rubber prepared from “ Abba” trees by Mr. Higgin 
‘son, and shipped to this country for valuation and report. oet 
a be reply, I am to state that this sample of rubber was. ref 
uest of Sir Alfred Moloney, in continuation of ex 
rer et m by Mr. Millson at Badagry, and oni in my le 
the 11th September 1888. The] 
in the Kew Bulletin for November 1888, 
trees of West Africa doubtless inelude ücsepok: species o of Ficus. 
|. Specimens forwarded to this country b y Mr. Millson, it is pret E 
- shown that one at least of them is Ficus Vogelii, i d Tt is, 
-for a fuller V Sepa of the mae that ation of rab ecim 
the prep 4 
letter of 
to Kew 
ds In the 
ibid by Mr. x Higginson, 
Á— 
He has fully realized the d 
Ë rubber from Abba trees, and 
