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of the year, and is thus preserved in a semi-dormant state until 
the vernal showers excite growth again. Irrespective of their 
commercial value, deciduous trees of this class are much needed, 
and in the rocky maidan pd ns of Southern India would be 
ied Judging from our own experience, the Ceara rubber 
requires no pampered sorbate although, like most plenis, 
it reto a little kindness to starvation and utter neglect. It grow 
very rapidly in vegetable mould, but planted in any ordinary sail, 
at the break of the South-West Monsoon, the seedling nie shift 
for itself and possibly have em such a the und 
that no artificial watering is uired during the caue 
the whole will burst forth into fresh m" ip the rains set 
in. At present they look like so many dead ca In open land 
the tree will attain an average height of 30 po 35 feet, with a 
diameter, through the branches, of 15 to 20 feet. Seedlings 
might therefore be planted uniformly at 18 feet apart each way. 
The latter are ready ur the field when six months old A coat 
15 inches high, with a woody base.” 
im auus of the lollo rias year contains further information 
“A "ball of Ceara rubber, weighing 6 ozs., has been col- 
lected from one or two trees in the garden (chiefly one tree 
, as 
it 
as the milky juice will not run om w he jm are 
wintering. I therefore regret that tapping nai be postponed 
again. We have collected 17 lbs. of Ceara seeds for pro- 
pagation.” 
BURMA. 
Colonel E. S. Berkeley, Rangoon, reported in 1834 that “ The 
plants of Manihot Glaziovii received from Dr. King in 1879 are 
growing into robust trees. The climate of Burma sééms to suit 
this plant; it seeds freely." 
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 
Ceara rubber trees were introduced into the Malay Archipelago 
in 1879, but dias possibly to the excessively damp climate they 
do not appear to have succeeded anywhere. Mr. H. N. ley, 
F.L.S., regards Manihot Glaziovii as quite ‘unsuited for remu 
nerative cultivation in Singapore, and a similar opinion is. 
expressed in regard to the prospects in the Native States. It is 
possible, as in Ceyion, that the best rubber plant for regular 
cultivation in Malaya is the Para rubber tree (raven by 'asiliensis). 
URITIUS. 
The foBo DE; eade gue respecting the "ranas 
of Ceara rubber trees in Mauritius in 1883 were communicated 
the late Mr. Scott :— 
*Of all the eim where the Ceara rubber trees have been. p 
planted they appear to thrive better and grow more s yummy at 
