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1876, only two plants have been raised, and these 

 «iew with excessive slowness. Nothing can there- 

 fore be done at present in propagating them. 



Recapitulating, 1 have therefore to state that 

 Sir Joseph Hooker is of opinion : — 



(1) That it is unnecessary to transmit any 

 more Hevea plants to India, and that applica- 

 tion should be made for them to Ceylon when 

 required for experimental cultivation. 



(2) That as the stock of Gastilioas at Kew in- 

 creases, iurther consignments should continue 

 for the present to be made to Ceylon. 



(3) That plants of the (Jeara rubber may with 

 advantage be forwarded to Madras, but that the 

 principal stock of young plants should be sent to 

 Calcutta from which they can be distributed. 



(4) That for the present nothing can be done, 

 as f av as Ke w is concerned, with the balsam of 

 Copaiba. - 1 have, etc, 



(Sd.) W. T. Thisklton Dyer. 

 The Under Secretary of State for India. 



Note — 1. Mr James Collins, really the first 

 man to bring the plant from the Amazons to 

 Europe, was afterwards Government Economic 

 Botanist at^ingapore. He only remained about 

 a year, and retired. He was the author of a 

 report, apparently the first real account, of the 

 rubber industry in South America (Report on 

 the caoutchouc of commerce by James Collins 

 1872). 



He described and figured the herringbone 

 system of tapping, and invented several forms 

 of tapping knives, among which is the well- 

 known "Farrier's knife 1 ' which was also sug- 

 gested by Mr Mann, and was used for marking 

 timber in Hauover at that time. He suggested 

 the use of iron vessels for catching the latex in 

 place of the folded leaves plastered to the trunk 

 with clay or calabashes. Clay, he says, con- 

 taminates the milk in a very objectionable 

 manner. 5Tet this system was the only one in 

 Ceylon till 1899, with a coconut shell substitute 

 for the calabash. 



2. Plants were sent to Burma, Mauritius 

 and Calcutta, besides Ceylon and Singapore. 

 The plant has always failed in Calcutta, but 

 neither Mauritius nor Burma seoms to have 

 taken any trouble to continue its cultivation. 

 In fact, tnough later the plant was sent to all 

 the other tropical gardens of the Empire, 

 Ceylon and Singapore alone saw the importance 

 of continuing to propagate it so that, thanks 

 to Thwaites and Trimen, Murton and Cantley, 

 there was a sufficient stock of plants and seeds 

 to start the industry when the demand for 

 cultivated rubber sprang up. But though there 

 were upwards of 2,000 Para rubber plants sent 

 to Ceylon in 1877, there seem to have been in 

 1899 only about 70 trees in the Honeratgoda and 

 Peradeniya Gardens, while in Singapore, which 

 received 22 plants in 1877 there were over a 



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