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rubber was obtained. This small sample was sent home and 
reported by Messrs. Silver to be * fully equal to good Para India- 
die as regards strength and elasticity, and to be worth 4s. 
r lb. This was quite — as s quality, but it was 
obvious that the trees were yet too young to affo can any quantity 
of milk. I therefore deferred any further M forafew years, 
till 1888, when the trees were 11 yearsold. One of the best-grown 
and healthiest was then selected, having a stem cireumference of 
4 ft. 2} ins. at a yard from the ground. The plan followed was 
to scrape off a little of the rough outer bark and to make V-shaped 
incisions with a j-inch chisel in the inner bark. The milk mostly 
dried on the tree in dei thick strings and small sheets, and 
that which ran down the trunk was prevented from reaching the 
ground by little cups of cocoanut-shell fastened grim clay to its 
b The operation was performed on 17 days in the driest 
months of the hing and the whole amount of dry Bhs obtained 
1 Ib. 122 ozs. ; the time occupied was in all about 20 hours 
and the cost belated at 62 cts. of arupee. Though the bark was 
of course much scarred with the numerous incisions, the tree in 
u 
90 g l 
n 1892 gave 2 lbs. 13 ozs. ; in 1894 gave 3 lbs. 3 ozs., being a total 
of 10 lbs. 7$ ozs. On a focus of this rubber sent home in ` 
February, 1893, Messrs. Hecht, Levis & Kahn, reported that it Es 
*very good in ndeed’ its value at that date bei ing from 2s. 3d. t 
2s. 6d. per lb. easily saleable in any quantity. 
23 Pai of over on lbs. of first-class rubber from a single 
tre six years fully warrants a belief that the opting of 
kenge ‘paintations via be highly profitable. Nor is there any 
reason to suppose that the trees would not easily eaf irem d 
annually, and continue to yield for very many years if the wood 
were not injured. I do not think they should be bled, however, 
until at least 10 years old. It is noticeable how rapidly the yield 
increases with age. 
* In India the oniy “taner in which the tree has been found 
to succeed are Lower Bur d Malabar, and to Forest Depart- 
ments in both districts, Mergui i in A dd former and Nilambur in the 
latter, seeds and plants have been largely sent from Ceylon, as 
8:— ; 
To Burma (Mergui), uem i Piante (rooted cuttings) 500 
To Malabar si 1878 Ex pase (rooted cuttings). 
1879 .. ; ; 
: » 1883 ,  (stumps) 27 
» " 1884 ” " 26 
LH ” ” Seeds. 
Ü 3j 1885 " 800 
1887 ^ 
1 ” 
“In 1880 we sent two plants to the First Prince of Travanco 
in 1881 a Wardian case of 28 plants to the Andaman Islands, ud 
in 1888 about 2,000 seeds to the Commissioner of Agriculture at 
Nagpur, Central Provinces. 
