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progress and state oi" the plants of American Rubbers which were 

 sent to Perak from the Botanic Gardens. 



I have the honour to be 

 Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 

 (Sd.) J. A. SWETTENHAM, 



Assistant Col. Secretary, S.S. 



The Superintendent, 

 Botanic Gardens, 

 Singapore. 



Residency, Kwala Kangsar, 



26th July, 1878. 



No. 202/78. 

 Sir, 



In reply to your letter No. 3590 of the 20th July, 1878, requiring 

 a report on the progress and state of the plants of American 

 rubbers which were sent to Perak from the Botanical Gardens, I have 

 the honour to state that the only plants of this description within n]3' 

 knowledge are one plant of what T suppose to be the Hevea and nine 

 of the Manihots. 



These were brought here by Mr. Murton in October last and 

 planted at the back of the Residency and are growing very well. 



They were quite small when they arrived here but the first is 

 about 5 feet high with branches of equal length and the Manihots 

 vary from four to eight feet and are growing vigorously. 



I believe Mr. Murton left plants of some kind at Durian 

 Sabatang and at Thaiping or Matang and I will send on your letter 

 to those places in order that if this were the case some report of 

 their condition may be obtained, but I did not see anything of them 

 in either places on my last visits there, though I carefully inspected 

 the African Coffee, Cloves, Chinese fruits, and Australian plants 

 growing on the Residency hill at Thaiping. 



There are many Districts in Perak which would, judging from 

 what I have read of the Hevea habitat, be \iery suitable to the 

 cultivation of these plants, this hill on which they are now growing 

 well is of river gravel and I have no doubt they would have been 

 much stronger in alluvial soil. 



1 have the honour to be. 

 Sir, ' 



Yoi.r obedient servant. 



(Sd.) Hugh Low, 



Resident. 



The Hon'ble 



The Colonial Secretary, S.S.. 



Singapore, 



