10 PLANTERS AKD OTHERS. 
Hevea Brasiliensis (Pum Rubber) — Seeds and Plants supplied, immediate delivery, 
quantity limited, good arrival guaranteed, jjacked to stand i to 6 months' transit well, five 
hundred plants in each Wardian case. 
Out of a supply of Para Rubber seed collected in July, 1897, and preserved by us, a 
quantity was forwarded to Hammond Island in December of the same year, and the gentle- 
man who ordered the seeds in ordering a further supply wrote us on the 30th April, 1898 : — 
" All the seeds done well, and now some of the plants from them are 13 inches high." This 
seed was put in nursery eight months after gathering. 
A Mercantile firm who ordered 30,000 Para Rubber plants in (50 Wardian cases, 500 
plants in each, wrote 5th April, 1898: — " I note that you accept delivery of GO cases. We 
shall probably require further supply of seeds and plants." 
For price, instructions and particidars sec our Cricular No. 30, post free on ajijilication.. 
Manihot Glaziovii (Ceara Rubber). — Fresh seeds available all the year round for 
shipment at any time, guaranteed to stand good 8 to 12 months. 
For price, instructions and particulars see our Circular No. 31, post free on applicaiion. 
Castilloa Elastica (Panama or Central American Rubber). — Seeds and Plants supplied. 
See our Circular No. 32 for price, instructions and particulars, post free on application. 
Urceola Esculenta (Burma Rubber). — A creeper Seed and Plants. 
Landolphia Kiriki (African Rubber). — A creeper Seed and Plants. 
Seeds and Plants of Cinnamon, Niitmeg, Clove, Koianut and ditierent varieties of 
Coffee, Cacao, Tea, Coca, Fibi-e, Medicinal and Fruit trees, Shade and Timber trees, also Palms, 
Bulbs and Orchids, ikc. 
Professor MacOwan writes : — 
Department of Agriculture, 
Messrs. William Bros. Cape Town, 27th July, 1898. 
Gentlemen,— I have this moniintc received your letter of 21st June covering [larcel of Catalogues, 
Ic will ^ive me pleasure to fulfil your wishes in rp<j;aid to theii- tUstiibution among likely puichaseis. 
Vou will be glad to learn that we have very good reports of the success of the semi-tropical things 
sent by you to the little Eastern Coast-strip of this Colony, particularly al)out the mouth of the Buffalo 
Hum at East London. Pine Apples are now grown there far sui)erior to the stuff sent half ripe by sea 
from Natal. . . , ^ ,, 
Always yours faitliiully, 
* (Signed) P. MacOWAN, 
Government Botanist. 
Our enlarged Descriptive Price List of Tropical Seeds and Plants of Commercial 
Products for 1899-1900 now in the press, post free on application. 
Agmta in London -.—Messrs. P. W. WOOLLEY & Cg., 33, Basinghall Street. 
Agent in Colombo, Ceylon :— E. B. CREASY, Esq. 
Telegraphic Address ; 
WiLU.VM, Yeyan(;ooa, Ceylln. 
A. I. and A.B.C. Codes used. 
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J. P. WILLIAM & BROTHERS, 
Trofiical Seed Mercluinls, 
H E N A i< A'j * ! o 1) A , Ceylon. 
