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collections some containing over two hundred different herbs and 

 drugs. Mr. Machado carried off the first prize for these with a 

 beautifully prepared series showing the specimens dried as for 

 a herbarium, as well as dried as the drug, and put up in bottles. 



Fibres. — This class of produce was better shown and staged 

 than on previous occasions, though there was nothing equal to the 

 collection shown by Mr. Schirmer in the Kuala Lumpur show. 

 There were twenty-two exhibits, Mr. Machado winning a first prize 

 with a fine set of samples, very well shown. There is doubtless a 

 future for fibre in the Malay Peninsula. Many grow extremely 

 readily, and there is a constant demand for high class and even 

 second grade fibres in the European markets. 



Cotton. — Some samples of this were decidedly good, but much 

 was very poor. Mr. Machado's Egyptian was very fine. A good 

 deal of that shown by natives was ill-cleaned, and one or two 

 tempting looking baskets were discovered to have a fine sample at 

 the top with very inferior specimens below. 



Kapok was largely represented, and most of the samples good, 

 some being very superior. 



Cocoa pods. — Were much more largely represented this year 

 than on previous occasions, and some samples were very fair and 

 clean, mostly of the red varieties Sangue Toro, and Forastero. The 

 green and yellow varieties do not seem popular. None of the pods 

 were of very large size, and none were fully ripe, still signs of an 

 increase in the cultivation of this product are very welcome. 



Dragon's blood was well represented, and the winner of the 

 first prize exhibited a complete series of specimens illustrating the 

 history and manufacture of this product in the form of a living 

 plant of the rattan Dcemonovops pvopinqua which produces the drug, 

 a portion of an adult stem with panicles and fruit, the little mat 

 basket and tripod, with the cockleshells used in separating the 

 resin from the fruit, a bottle of the powdered resin of first class 

 quality and a cake of the pressed dragon's blood as exported. All 

 the samples shown this time seemed to be derived from D . pvopinqua 

 though at previous exhibitions dragon's blood of other species was 

 shown. 



Coconuts. — Mr. Lawrence Brown, the Government Inspector 

 of Coconut Trees in the Malay States, acted as judge of coconuts 

 as well as other agricultural produce, and writes : " As at the two 

 previous shows there were a great many fine exhibits of coconuts 

 and all the classes were not only well filled but well represented. 

 The best collection of varieties of coconuts consisting of no less 

 than thirty-one kinds was that of Hadji Mohamed Yassin of 

 S'tiawan and received the first prize, and Mr. Prior of Golden Hope 

 Estate, Klang, easily obtained the second prize with an excellent 

 exhibit of twenty-two varieties, while another collection of fourteen 

 varieties staged by Latip bin Eusope of Malacca carried the third 

 prize. 



