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Patchouli was abundantly shown but many of the samples were 

 quite odourless, probably too old. 



A good prize was offered for camphor for the best sample of that of 

 Cinnamonium Camphora. Of this, there were several examples of obvi- 

 ously purchased camphor, one of which bore still the label of the shop, 

 there was also a good sample of Borneo camphor. It was perhaps 

 too premature to offer a prize for this new cultivation. In the fruits 

 and flowers shed Mr. Eaton staged a camphor still in work with 

 samples of camphor, and camphor oil and photographs of trees at 

 Kuala Lumpur. 



In the oil and oilcake section,the Singapore Oil Mills easily carried 

 off most of the prizes with grand samples of oils and cakes, but other 

 exhibitors showed good and poor samples of coconut, castor, citro- 

 nella and lemon grass, some of the aromatic oils shown by native dis- 

 tillers were very deficient in aroma, and seemed to have mixed with 

 other oils. The Para seed cake appeared to be very good with a 

 pleasant taste and the characteristic slight bitterness of this oil, 

 Kabu-kabu seed {Enode?idrou anfractuosum) was very largely shown, 

 and the samples very even. 



Of the Getahs, jelutong was fairly good and the guttapercha was 

 represented by some excellent specimens There were a few collections 

 of " local gutta " nearly all of which contained rambong probably 

 cultivated, getah grip, jelutong, etc. 



An exhibition of models made of guttapercha attracted much 

 attention and the carriages, machinery, a swan, cat and dog, and 

 very cleverly made figures of natives caused much amusement. 



Damars were of the usual style, the collections being good but 

 not exceptional. Dragon's blood contained a number of good samples. 

 The Gambler block and cube was very inferior, only one poor speci- 

 men of block, wet and mouldy, and a few samples of lead cubes. 

 Chewing gambler for which no prize was scheduled, was better, and 

 there were some good samples. 



In the Fibre section there were no first class collections of fibres, 

 and the black fibre, (fibre of Areng Sac char if era) was scantily shown 

 and not of its best. 



Tree cotton (Kabu Kabu) was very largely represented and some 

 samples were good, and there was some fair specimens of cotton, 

 Rotans and bamboos were plentiful and walking sticks extensively 

 shown and very variable in form. For medicinal plants, there were 

 two classes, one "open," presumably for Europeans, for which medals 

 were offered, and one for natives, the distinction of the two classes 

 were not sufficiently clearly indicated in the schedule. However, all 

 the exhibits were sent in by natives, one or two collections being very 

 large and carefully named, with native names. 



In this shed was also staged a most instructive and interesting 

 exhibit from the Philppipines by Mr. Prautch. Itlincluded a very large 



