December, 1908,] 



OLIVE AND ITS CULTIVATION 

 IN CEYLON. 



Sir, — Will you please be good enough 

 to give me the following information : — 



(1) Does the olive tree Olea Europa 

 grow in Ceylon ? 



(2) Has it been tried in the Botanical 

 Gardens or in any of the other 

 Gardens ? 



(3) // it does grow, does it thrive and 

 bear well? 



(4) What varieties are being grown? 



(5) What Ceylon soils, in your opi- 

 nion, are most suitable? 



Yours faithfully, 

 AGRICOLA. 

 [The olive tree will grow in Ceylon, 

 but is of very slow growth. Trees grow- 

 ing at Talawakele, and planted in 1901 

 (four years old from seed) fruited this 

 year for the first time (T. A., June, 1908), 

 and trees distributed many years ago, 

 from Hakgala all over Uva have not yet 

 flowered.— Ed.] 



HEVEA BRASILIENSIS: EXPERI- 

 MENTS IN GERMINATION. 

 Peradeuiya, November 20, 1908. 

 Sir, — Please publish the following cor" 

 rections of printer's errors in the article 

 on " Hevea Brasiliensis : Experimentsjn 

 Germination, etc " on pp. 414-115. 



Page 414, col. 2, line 15 from bottom, 

 for " similar " read " smaller." 



Page 415, col. 1, line 24, 'for "for " read 

 "four" ; line 27, for "years " read 

 "year" ; line 3 from bottom, for "three- 

 fourths " read " three and a half." 



Page 415, col. 2, line 1, insert "is "after 

 " M. Vemet" ; line 30, for "have" 

 read "had" ; line 32, for "toithout" read 

 " within." 



The remaining seventeen errors are not 

 important. The new idea of dispensing 

 with proofs appears to be hardly a 

 success. 



T. PETCH. 



