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farther than this. I dislike the winding walks, and I think the 
borders should not be cut away, but merely reduced in places so as to 
give pen and not more than glimpses of the interior plots. The 
trees cut d Finlay on the east side should also be 
pea ed at proper intervals; but "e ae Eucalyptus Globulus or 
some more suitable eastern tree is a ques 
divided foliage, so that gini distance, and the charm of the unknown 
might be communicated to them. If you see them fully exposed at 
, with only a series of devious gravel walks and 
multiform beds in the intervening space, there is nothing left to the 
imagination ; and the spectator soon begins to believe that there is little 
difference between this and a thousand other flower gardens in all 
parts of the world. 
(Signed) W. E. Near 
Co Gist afa). 

CCLXXXIV.—INDIAN GUTTA-PERCHA. 
The natural sources of supply of gutta-percha, and the possibility of. 
their exhaustion were referred to in the Kew Reports 1876 (p. 
lowing note on this plant appeared in the Report of the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, 1881, p. 44:— 
“ This tree appears to be common on the Malabar coast, - vean of 
Coorg, the Wynaad, Travancore, &c. It grows to a height of 80 or, 
90 feet. A substance similar to the gutta-percha of Sina is pro- 
cured by tapping, but the tree requires an interval of rest of some hours, 
or even of days, after frequent incision. In five or six hours upwards 
of 14 lbs. was collected from four or five incisions. The gum is hard 
;P this 
ury's Useful Plants vf India, esca that a gum might 
ber: did usefully utilised as a sub-aque neous cement or glue; or that on 
some value to the pastille and incense makers. "More recently this 
has been analysed by Mr. st Hooper, F.C.S., F.L.C., 
inologist to the o bag vig of Madras, and the results are given 
in the ierra Report of the Cinehona Plcusibns of Madras fcr 1891, 
ann 
x» Indian Gutta-Percha.—An abundanee of dpt ater milk has. 
ten i ning put dry weather in the Wynád by the Panchotee 
