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the Gardens, Pamplemousses, than in any other locality. An 
experiment was made when the trees of three years’ growth shed 
their leaves in transplanting them. These were lifted Se 
but without balls of earth attached to the roots, and plante 
another part of the plantation; these transplants all “held, n 
although they have not made such a strong growth as the other 
trees, it proves that e be ee can be transplanted with impunity.” 
Further, Mr. Scott 
xx Dang the sueta parie the Ceara rubber trees were at rest, 
6 inches and t ied n grass-enveloped balls of earth, and 
arranged i oe under iad until they had formed deben 
u 
these e then divided amongst the plantations in the lower 
parts of cl island." 
SEYCHELLES. 
. E. H. Edwards wrote on the 1st July, 1885 
- Ceara rubber I pronounce a great success, both cuttings and 
plants raised from seed grow gol b is too early yet to give 
any opinion as to the yield, but, wth of wood be 
eriterion, in the not distant future: uw should be a rabiei 
producing couniry.” 
ZANZIBAR. 
EY following extract is taken from a PM on the cultivation 
Ceara rubber trees in Zanzibar by Sir John Kirk, dated 
Ponana Mth, 1883 (F.O. Reports. Commercial, No. 1 1885, 
pp. 38, rege :— 
n Five ago I received from the Director of the Royal 
Gardens, ke on in exchange for plants of our African india-rubbers 
of the genus Landolphia, other sorts of india- ted ee plants, 
among which was the Ceara rubber, Manihot Glaz 
“This I find grows here with the greatest aair and 
propagates itself Pug in the worst soil. It is only now, however, 
lhave beet able to obtain a sample of the india-rubber likely to. 
be produced, Mid on which the value of the new introduction 
entirely depends. I find that trees only begin to yield when five 
years old, and no doubt these are even then too small to M 
remun rativ e. 
“I HR collected a sample of the produce, which I forward by 
this mail, and which I would ask your Lordship to be good 
enough to forward to Sir Joseph Hooker at Kew to be reported on. 
If the quality of this india-rubber is found to be good, I can then 
confidently eneourage the Sultan to plant widely the new ios in 
the unoccupied parts of this island. It stands the climate, grows 
freely, needs no care, and would be a source of income on which 
his people might fall back in the event of other crops wipes 
“The sample sent includes two qualities—that picked fro; e 
trunk of the tree, which, of course, is the bes 5 and that ‘uate on 
the ground, and so become mi price with sand." 
