Sept. 1, 1899.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 189 
TO ALL PARTS OF ASIA, AFRICA, AMERICA AND OCEANIA. 
Seeds & Plants of CommePGial Products. 
Hevea Braslllensis {Para Rubber). — Orders being booked for the coming crop available in 
August and September. This is the only crop of seeds in the year. All orders should reach us before 
the end of July to avoid disappointment, as we have to make arrangements in time ; guaranteed to 
arrive in good order at destination. We have already booked a large number of orders. A Sumatra 
Planter writes, dating 9th March, 1899:—"! consent to the price of £ per thousand. Therewith 
order 50,000 upon condition that you guarantee at least 33 % seeds germinating." Plants can be 
forwarded all the year round in Wardian cases. Price and particulars as per our Circular No. 30. 
Ficus Elastica (Assam and Java Rubber.)— Seeds supplied by the pound with instructiona ; 
price according to quantity. This tree grows equally well in high and low land, in forest and grass 
land, its cultivation being extended largely by the Indian Government. 
Manihot QIaziovii (Ceara or Manicoba Rubber). — Fresh seeds available all the year round; 
pt'je as per our Circular No. 31. It is superior to Mangabeira rubber and second to Para rubber, 
Castilloa Elastica (Panama or Central American Rubber).— Seeds and Plants supplied ; 
price and particulars as per our Circular No. 32. 
Urceola Esculenta (Burma Rubber) and Landolphia Kirkii (Mozambique Rubber).— Seeds 
and plants, both are creepers. 
Cinchona Seeds. — Different varieties. 
Hybridised Maragogipe Coffee.— A larged-beaned superior variety of Cofiee in demand ; seeds. 
Santalum Album (Sandlewood). — The cultivation and felling of the tree is entirely under 
Government monopoly in India, Sandlewoods to the value of over £100,000 being annually exported 
to various countries from India. The cultivation of this useful tree is now receiving increased attention 
in other countries ; seeds and plants. * 
Eucalyptus Marginata (Jarra).— Large quantities of this most valuable timber are being 
annually exported from Australia to London and various parts of the world for street paving and other 
purposes. Price of seeds on application. 7,846 pieces of Jarra timber has already arrived for Ceylon use, 
Seeds and Plants of Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Clove, Kolanut, Pepper, Cardamom, Vanilla. 
Arabian, Liberian and Maragogipe Coffee, Cacao, Tea, Coca, Fibre, Medicinal and Fruit Trees, Shade 
and Timber Trees, 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 now being forwarded to applicants in different parts of the world, 
•'South Afeica." — 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 that they were worth the grabbing. We recommend the great Powers and 
Cpp^essionaries under them to go to William Brothers." 
i leading Planter writes from New Hebrides under date 17th January, 1899 :— " I shall like a 
few more of your Catalogues to distribute through these Islands, as I feel sure many would place 
themselves in communication with you, did they know where to write for Seeds and Plants." 
Our New Descriptive Price List of Seeds and Plants of Fruit Trees now being 
prepared and will be ready shortly. 
Agents in London :— Messrs. P. W. WOOLLEY & Co., 33, Baainghall Street. 
Agent in Colombo, Ceylon :— E. S, CREASY, Esq. 
Telegraphic Address : J, P. WILLIAM & BROTHERS, 
William, Veyangoda, Ceylon. Tropical Seed Merchants, 
Liebur's, A.L and A.B.C. Codes used. Henaratgoda, Ceylon. 
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