4i2 



The following table shows the countries which took the amount 

 exported during 1 903 : — 



Quantity. 



Bales. 



United 



Slates 



575.167 



Cuba 





8,066 



United 



Kingdom 



4.286 



Canada 





1 ,200 



France, 



Spain, Germany & Belgium 



I,7M 



(Mr. CONSUL Leay'S report on Vera Cruz 

 for the year 1903. p. 24.) 



RUBBER NOTES. 



In Mr. PEARSON'S interesting account of his experiences in tra- 

 velling through Ceylon and the Peninsula published in the India 

 Rubber World, he accredits the Editor with saying that he took 

 900 pounds of rubber from 100 trees in one season, and three 

 pounds from a three-year old tree. As this statement has found 

 its way into one or two other journals and is not quite accurate, 

 it requires a little emendation. The statement implies that it was 

 the trees of the Botanic Gardens which supplied these exceptional 

 amounts. The first statement, viz., that too trees gave an average 

 of 9 pounds per tree. This did not refer to the Garden s trees, but 

 to those of an estate in Perak. From 9 to 12 lbs. have been taken 

 from a number of trees in several places in the Peninsula, but 

 planters must not be so sanguine as to expect to get such returns 

 always. The three pounds from a single three-year old tree was 

 taken many years ago from a tree in Kwala Lumpor, an isolated 

 tree, 1 believe, in the hospital grounds, but I cannot lay hands on 

 my original note of this. One of these trees was reported to have 

 grown to a height of thirty feet in eighteen months from seed. 

 Of ourse as all planters know some trees oecasionallv give extra- 

 ordinary and exceptional results, but these though interesting are. 

 not of so much practical importance as the lower figures of average 

 results. 



Rubber ifi French Indo-China. — Dr. HA1TXER of Saigon Gardens 

 publishes in the Bulletin Economique for August tables of growth 

 of Para trees in the Experimental Gardens of Ong Lem with a 

 photogravure of a row of trees 5.J years old. The tires are planted 



