Aug. 1, 1900.] 
THE TEOPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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TO ILL PARTS OF ASIl, AFSICA, AMERICA AND OCEANIA. 
CESfciiioa Elastica Cervantes. — Orders being booked for the coming crop of seeds available in 
.Tunc and July, selected seed from very old trees. E. N. Lyne, Esq., Director of Agriculture, Ziinzibar, 
writes lUider date '24th August, 1899 : — "Please send me 200 seeds of Castilloa Elastica for further trial; 
the seeds of Castilloa you sent me last Augustgerminated very well." Price and particulars in our Circular 
No. .S2; special quotations for large orders according to quantity ; immediate booking necessary to a /oid 
disappointment. 
Hevea Braslliensss (Para Rubber). — Orders being booked for the coming crop available 5n 
Au.gusfc and September, 1900. This is the only crop of seeds in the year. All orders should reach 
us before the end of July to avoid disappointment, as "\ve have to make arrangements in time; guaranteed 
to arrive in good order at destination. We have already booked a large number of orders. A leading 
S'.nnatra Planter, w ho ordered 50,000 Hevea Brasiliensis seeds last year writes under date '27th February, 
1900: — " I received your fa%'or of the 12th instant, out of \vhich I learn that yon booked me for 100,000 
Hevea Brasiliensis seeds for August and September on the same conditions as before, but at the price of • 
per thou.=;and." Plants can be forwarded all the year round in Wardian cases. Price and particulars as per 
our Circular No. 30. A Borneo planter v/rites dating, Sandakan, 17th August, 1899:— "The last lot of 
]-ara seeds turned out very well." Our shipments of Pi5ra plants last year has exceeded over 3'j0,0C0 to 
different countries. Special terms for large orders on application. 
Kickxsa Africans. (Lagos Rubber). — One of the staple articles of commerce in Lagos grow very 
vigorously, realizing over 8s. per lb. in the Liverpool market. (Seeds and plants, price on application. 
.•'.^icornia Specios'a (Mansibeira Puubber). — Besides the vaiue of rubber, it bears delicious 
friii'L?.. v.l'.i h is a great favourite with the Brazilians, cultivated for both purposes. Seeds and plants, price 
on appiii tion. 
Cofice Arabica Liherlan Kybrid, Marag'Ogopie Hybrid, C. Staaiophylla and other 
varieties. Price of seeds on application. 
Firi's Eiastica (Assam amd Java Rubber). — Seeds supplied with instructions; price according to 
quantity. '! his tree grows equally well in high and low land, in forest and grass land, its cultivation being 
extended iavgeiy by the Indian Government. For price of seeds with particulars as per our Cirj.ilar No. 
[■lirinilioi Qlazlovii (Ceara or Manicoba Rubber). — Fresh seeds available all ohe yeir round ; 
price as per our Circular No, 31. 
UrceoSa Esculent?. (Burma Rubber) and Landofplila KIrkii (Mozambique flabberi, — Seeda 
and plants, both are creepers. 
Csoctioiia Seeds. — Different varieties. 
Sterculia Acaroinata. — (Kolanut). .Superior quality, seeds and plants ; price oa app'ication, 
packed to stand the transit well for several months, a hardy tree, cultivation easy. 
Eryihrsna Lithosperrrsa. — Thornless variety, new crop of seeds ready in December, May and 
June. Price acccording to quantity on application. 
Seeds and Plants of Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Clove. Sandlewood, Pepper, Cardamom, Vanilla, 
Cacao, Tea, Coca, Fibre, Medicinal and Fruit Trees, Shade and Timber Trees, Eucalyptus various varieties, 
also Palms, Bulbs, Orchids, &c. 
Our enlarged Descriptive Price List of Tropical Seeds and Plants of Commercial Products for 
Foreign Countries for 1899-1900 are novv being forv^'arded to applicants in diiierent parts of the world. 
Also Descriptive Price Lists of Seeds and Plants of Fruit Trees, Bulbs, Tubers and Yams, and Orchids. 
" South Africa." — The great authority on South African affairs of 25th March, 1899, says: — 
"An interesting Catalogue reaches us from the East. It is issued by William Brothers, Tropical 
Seed Merchants, of Henaratgoda, Ceylon, and schedules all the useful and beautiful plants which will 
thrive in tropical and semi-tropical regions. We fancy Messrs. Williams should do good business, for now 
that the great Powers have grabbed all the waste places of the earth, they must turn to and prove thaft 
they were worth the grabbling. We recommend the great Powers and Concessionaries under them to go to 
Wiiliam Brothers." 
Our new Descriptive Price Lists of Seeds of Shade Trees for Coffee, Cacao, Tea, Cardamoms, &o-, 
Timber Trees, Trees for Avenues, Hedges, Wind and Shelter Belts, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs ai^d Climbing^ 
Plants ; and Seeds and Plants of Palms, Calamus, Pandanus, Cycads, Tree and other Ferns, Crotons and' 
Dracinas, now being prepared and will be ready shortly. 
Special Arrangements made with foreign Governments, Botanical and Agricultaral Depart^ 
ments, Planters and others for supplying seeds and plants of Commercial Products in large quantities. 
Agents in London ;— Messrs. P. W. WOOLLEY & Co., 90, Lower Tbames Street. 
Agent in Colombo, Ceylon E. B. CREASY, Esq. 
Telegraphic Address t J. P. WILLIAM & BROTHERS, 
William, Veyangoda, Ceylon. Tropcal Seed Menhmts, 
Lieber's, A.I. and A.B.C. Codes usedj ' *~ Henabatgopa^ GeyloJJ^ 
