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better obtained by machinery and as there are already oil-mills in 

 Singapore, should the plantbe cultivated in sufficient quantity, it 

 would pay best to send the oil-seeds direct to the factory. 



ivented in Germany which hurls the seeds 



^ I he kernel oil is more highly valued than that of the husk and is 



There seems no doubt, that this plant may well be worth planting 

 for the sake of its seeds and oil pulp in the Malay Peninsula, as it 

 requires really hardly any attention except in actual planting and 

 gathering the seed. 



The plate we give represents a fine oil-palm in the Botanic 

 Gardens, Singapore, on which is seen a fine specimen of the birds- 

 nest tern fhamnopteris Nidus- A vis. 



NOTES ON THE CEYLON RUBBER 

 EXHIBITION SEPTEMBER, 1906. 



The Ceylon Rubber Exhibition owes its unqualified suco 



fact-> 



ubber culth 



the first of its kind and 



ery gr< 



when many scientific, and practical men were busily considering 

 he improvements in methods of cultivation and preparation. 

 It was held in perhaps the most suitable place in the British tropical 

 agricultural possessions, Peradeniya, where Science has been 

 helping agriculture in a more successful way than any other place 

 except perhaps Java, in what are considered by many the most 

 beautiful gardens of the world, with a climate not hot to allow of 

 L W ° rk ° f P r °P erl y examining such an exhibition. 

 Arrangements were made that all departments in the cultivation 

 and preparation of rubber for the market should be represented. 



n I h K, beaU ! y u and SltUation of the buildings were such as could 

 probably not be contrived in anv other country in the world, and 

 S: re ;r l nCytheGovernor ' Sir Henry Blake^ by his constant 

 Ifc*rM ^^^^ inade CCrtain that ever >- thing wouldbe 

 The present position of the rubber growing industrv in »■ 

 infancy tended greatly towards a common helpfulness between all 

 yea " te°w fde^H ^ a " induSt ^ haS ^en'in progre^ for many 

 ffiet rf oM ^ g0 ° d are a P l to be stifl ^ bv the wet 



upon by yo^ n^Vn^T — ^ * * ^1 

 the demorraH? f v r the case of rubber cultivation at present 



^^^tS^*^^*™** ^ to a free 



s nuormation in which all give and gain. 



