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of this rubber we have seen, Mr. Bailey shewed excellent samples. 

 One untow T ard thing occurred in the judging of the rubber classes, 

 Mr. Lake and PAGETS' cup for any rubber of other class than what 

 took first prize in Para rubber, was awarded to a good sample of 

 sheet rubber, entered in the name of a Chinaman, who it proved 

 later was merely a buyer and not a cultivator. In cases like this 

 the prize should really belong to the grower and preparer of the 

 rubber and not the mere agent, who has no claim to it. 



A prize offered for improved rubber machinery was awarded to 

 an improved roller for making sheet rubber. It is needless to say 

 that both in quantity and quality the exhibition of rubber was an 

 immense improvement on the display of last year's Show, and was 

 an exhibition of which the planters might well be proud. 



Flowers and Plants. 



The exhibition of horticulture w r as by no means what it has been 

 at previous Shows, and was little if at all better than that of last 

 year's Show at Kwala Lumpur, a very large number of the classes 

 in the schedule were not at all represented. The flowers were 

 scanty and on the whole poor, the foliage plants not up to standard, 

 why this should be one cannot say, but one cannot help feeling that 

 we have not now-a-days the horticulturists of some years back. In 

 a country where so many fine and beautiful plants can be easily 

 grown, it is regrettable to see so poor a Show staged. 



A fine Grammatophyllum speciosum with eight flower spikes 

 shewn by Mr. A. OECHALE was very attractive. The Cantonese Club 

 showed a fine series of cock's combs and of asters, but beside this 

 there was practically nothing in the way of flowering plants to look 

 at. The Botanic Gardens of Penang shewed some fine Cattleyas 

 and other orchids, and the beautiful white, red and pink Tobaccos, 

 Nicotiana Sanderiana and a finis and a number of pinks which 

 brightened up the exhibition considerably of foliage-plants. Mr. 

 JOHN Brown shewed a good group of aroids and Mr. MACIIADO 

 brought from Kamuning a very fine pot of white Caladium ; Mrs. 

 LOGAN took a prize with a large Asparagus plant. Palms were 

 somewhat better shewn, Kow Jo TOK took the first prize for six 

 palms, well grown but common kinds, Mr. MACHADO showed some 

 of the rarer nature palms from the Kamuning woods, including 

 both forms of new Pinanga acaulis and Iguanuara Wallichii, and 

 took the first prize for specimen palm with a well grown Licuala 

 grandis. 



Mr. TAN Tin Bee shewed a nice little lot of palms also includ- 

 ing the gem of the whole of the foliage plants, a perfect specimen of 

 the beautiful and rare Licuala orbicularis from Borneo. 



Two lots of the Chinese grotesque plants were shown, both good 

 of their kind. 



Mrs. J. BROWN shewed a fairly good group of various plants. 



A few medium Crotons, a poor lot of Begonias, some mediocre 

 ferns and Selaginiellas made up the rest of this part of the exhibition. 

 The cut and arranged flowers were scanty, the roses were fairly 



