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sociation of India-rubber Manufacturers, and that questions which 

 may arise from time to time be freely discussed between the two 

 Associations, and I am confident that any help which the India- 

 rubber Manufacturers' Association could give, in this way, to rub- 

 ber planting would be freely at the disposal of the United Planters' 

 Association. The following is the name and address of the Secre- 

 tary of the Association. 



F. B. KNOTT, Esq., a.s.a.a. 



2, Cooper Street, Manchester. 



INFORMATION ABOUT THE MALAY PENINSULA IN LONDON. 



36. At present there is considerable activity shown in London 

 amongst controllers of capital in rubber planting in Ceylon and 

 the Malay Peninsula, and every sign of still further advance in this 

 direction. From the point of view of the future interests of the 

 industry and the permanent welfare of this country, the greatest 

 encouragement should be shown to capitalists who intend to 

 actually open up country and plant, rather than make profit by 

 company promotion. In this connection there is an unexpected 

 difficulty in obtaining information in London about the Malay 

 States, and the conditions under which land can be acquired, held, 

 and utilised, for planting. This acts as a distinct check to that 

 class of investor which is most to be encouraged. Cases of this 

 came under my personal notice ; copies of the Land Acts and 

 Ordinances of the Malay States and of the rules under these Acts 

 could only be obtained as a favour from the Colonial Office ; con- 

 ditions of labour supply and all details connected with the manner 

 and cost of opening, and development of an estate at the present 

 date, are difficult to obtain by the investing public, and steps might 

 with advantage to this country be taken towards supplying the 

 want, by the establishment of an office in London supplied with 

 quite recent and reliable information on all matters relating to 

 planting and agriculture in the Malay Peninsula. 



P. J. BURGESS, m.a., f.c.s., 



Government Analyst, Singapore. 



WATER AND ITS RELATION TO PLANT LIFE. 



(Continued from page 364.) 



Many and varied are the contrivances that regulate the passage of 

 water through the plant, and while the structure of many plants 

 favours the exit of the water that has been absorbed by the roots, 

 others have developed various devices for reducing this loss to a 

 minimum. 



Those plants which have developed contrivances for expediting 

 the exit of water, are known as hygrophytes, and are especially 

 characteristic of hot moist regions : as a rule, they have a weakly 

 developed root system, and are provided with an abundance of 



