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known that the Malay Peninsula could produce such nuts he would 

 have started planting here years ago. Mr. Prior as usual carried 

 off the best prizes in this section both for collection and sample. 

 In the collections of Coco-nuts some very odd varieties appeared, 

 such as the horned Coco-nut with its short horn-like additional 

 carpels, and some very narrow and small fruits, and many more 

 useful varieties. 



Coco-nut Sugar was well shewn, the samples being numerous and 

 good, and giving some trouble to the judges to decide on their res- 

 pective merits. There were five or six exhibits of Nipah Sugar, and 

 plenty of the sugar from the Kabong palm Arenga, most of which 

 was very good and some very excellent. Tea was not unrepre- 

 sented ; Durian Tunggal estate taking first prize. 



Gambir was fairly shewn, Penghulu KASAN'S Cube, and Nail 

 gambir being a good sample. 



Coffee shewed by the scantiness of the exhibits how much this 

 product has fallen before the advance of rubber, still what was 

 shewn was of very good quality. Mr. BAILEY carried off a prize 

 for his hybrid Stenophylla-liberica, and was seconded by Mr. 

 PRIOR, and the latter won on Liberian coffee both new and old. 



Of Essential Oils there were a number of interesting kinds shewn. 

 Mr. HardoUIN staged a very pretty series of Patchouli, Nutmeg, 

 Clove, Lemon-grass and Citronella. Mr. MACHADO shewed also 

 several good and unusual oils including Calamus Oil, (Acorus Cala- 

 mus) and Lemon Oil. 



Citronella Oil was shewn also separately but not in large series. 



Castor Oil had eight exhibits and was good. Sesamum Oil was 

 also shewn, and one sample of Rubber Seed Oil very clear and 

 bright was exhibited by Mr. COATES. Para rubber seed is too much 

 in demand this year for planting to produce a large display of its 

 value as an oil. 



Sago Flour and Pearl Sago were not as well shewn as might have 

 been expected, the samples being few and poor. 



Tapioca roots were fairly good and some were large, and the dis- 

 play on the whole was about as good as usual. 



Tapioca Flour and Pearl, and Flake Tapioca were well shewn and 

 of good quality and colour. 



Sugar Canes were not very extensively shewn, but it is un- 

 necessary to say that those coming from Caledonia Estate were very 

 fine. The variety of kinds shewn by other exhibitors was not 

 large, but both crushing and eating canes were represented. A 

 branched cane, not by the way a great rarity, attracted some atten- 

 tion. In refined Sugar, Caledonia Estate was the only exhibitor, 

 for a very nice looking sample refined in Hongkong was promptly 

 disqualified by the judges. Rum and Rum shrub also were only 

 represented by samples from the great Sugar Estate, whence also 

 came a sample bag of Molascuit, a new food for horses mostly 

 composed of sugar, and said to be very popular with these animals. 



