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The honey both in comb, and run, shown by Father Gex 

 would be hard to beat and the wax produced was of the highest 

 quality. 



Samples of the comb of the large wild bee Apis dovsalis were 

 also exhibited. This is the common large bee which produces only 

 one large comb upon the branch of a tree, and is not suited for 

 agriculture. Its wax collected by natives in the forests is, however, 

 an article of trade and of fairly good quality but usually very 

 yellow. 



Spices. — These were hardly as good as we remember to have 

 seen in byegone shows. There were, however, fourteen exhibits 

 of dry nutmegs, some of which were decidedly good, and twelve 

 samples of fresh nutmegs in the husk. The best of the nutmegs 

 competing, however, were not to be compared with the sample of 

 Banda nutmegs shown by Mr. Diepenheim, which of course are 

 a very much larger class of nutmeg than those we usually get from 

 the Peninsula. 



Cloves were fairly good but many better samples have been 

 staged at the earlier shows, and there were only ten exhibits. 



Mace both red and yellow were of fairly good quality taken 

 all round, and some of the red mace was quite superior. 



Collections of spices for curries were represented by five exhi- 

 bits, some of which were very complete in the number of kinds of 

 spices shown. They were in some cases too very nicely put up, 

 but there was a tendency to give very small samples of each kind 

 of spice. 



Some excellent samples of Curvy Powder of a very special make 

 were shown by Watt Lee & Co. 



Pepper. — Both black and white was fairly well shown, and 

 some of the samples were first class. But the number of exhibits 

 was not as large as in the former days when pepper was so largely 

 cultivated. There were many fine examples of white pepper which 

 were disqualified owing to their having been grown outside our 

 area. 



Ginger and Turmeric. — Were both good and abundantly shown. 

 The turmeric, however, was mostly rather small in the rhizome. 

 The Ginger was good, and some of large size. Both in these classes 

 and in that of arrowroot, some exhibitors have a tendency to 

 send their samples unwashed and coated with mud. Although this 

 does not necessarily count as a point against the exhibit, yet it 

 detracts from the appearance of the sample and is a distinct defect 

 in staging. 



Patchouli was well represented. A larger number of exhibits 

 being staged than on previous occasions. Kamuning Estate came 

 well to the front again with some beautifully prepared leaves, and 

 there were other good samples, but some of those shown were too 

 full of stalk. 



Tuba root was shown in very extensive series, with roots 

 of all sizes and forms. They were all fair to good and formed a 

 difficult class to judge. Among them several natives showed 



