No. 7.] 



JULY, 1908. 



[Vol. VII. 



Agricultural Bulletin 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



EDITED BY 



H. N. RIDLEY, M.A.,F.R.S., F.L.S., F.R.H.S.. 

 Director of Botanic Gardens, S. S. 



AND 



J. B. CARRUTHERS, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 

 Director of Agriculture & Government Botanist, F.M.S. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



1. Big Rubber Trees in the Botanic Garden ... ... ... 253 



2. Bee Culture ... ... ... ... ... ... 255 



3. Nutmeg Cultivation in Singapore ... ... ... .. 257 



4. A Further Use for the Coconut. ... .. ... ... 258 



5. A Plea for Vegetable Cultivation ... ... ... ... 258 



6. Where Para Trees will not Grow ... ... ... ... 259 



7. Rubber Plants from Cuttings ... ... ... ... 260 



8. Rubber Planting in the West Indies ... ... ... 261 



9. A Disease of Cloves ... ... ... ... ... 263 



10. Banana Fibre ... ... ... ... ... 265 



11. Another Coconut Beetle ... ... ... ... 265 



12. Kabong Sugar ... ... ... ... ... 266 



13. Poisons Excreted by Plant Roots ... ... ... ... 267 



14. Acalypha fruticosa Forsk ... ... ... ... 268 



15. Minutes of General Meeting of Planters' Association of Malaya ... 269 



16. Experiments with Rubber Seeds ... ... ... ... 275 



17. Rubber in Java ... ... ... ... ... 278 



18. Rubber Coagulation ... ... .. ... ... 280 



19. Rubber Cultivated in F. M. S. in 1907&1908... ... ... 282 



20. Agri- Horticultural Show of 1908 ... ... ... ... 282 



21. Agriculture in Kelantan ... ... ... ... 283 



22. Distilled Spirits Industry in the Philippines ... ... ... 284 



23. Planting in California ... ... ... ... ... 288 



24. Fruiting of Sciadopitys verticillata ... ... ... 290 



25. International Rubber Exhibition ... ... ... ... 290 



26. Para Rubber Tree in Government Garden at Tenom ... ... 291 



27. Kuala Selangor Planters' Association ... ... ... 292 



28. Gow, Wilson and Stanton Rubber Market Reports ... ... 293 



29. Ceylon, Straits and Malay States Rubber Reports ... ... 298 



30. Weather Reports ... ... 305 



To be purchased at the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, or from 

 Messrs. Kelly & Walsh. Limited. 

 No. 32 Raffles Place, and 194 Orchard Road, Singapore. 



Singapore : 



Printed at the Methodist Publishing House. 



