TO PLANTERS AND OTHERS. 
4 SEEDS AND PLANTS ^ 
OF 
Hevea Brasiliensis (Para Eubber). — Seeds and Plants supplied, immediate delivery, 
quantity limited, good arrival guaranteed, packed to stand 4- to 6 months' transit well, five 
hundred plants in each Wardian case. 
Out of a supply of Para Eubber 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 arc 13 inches high." Thia 
'seed was put in nursery eight months after gathering. 
A Mercantile firm who ordered 30,000 Para Paibber plants in 60 Wardian cases] 500 
plants-in each, wrote 5th April, 1898 : — "I note that you accept delivery of 60 cases. Wa 
shall probably require further supply of seeds and plants." 
For price, instructions and particulars see our Circular No 30, post free on application. 
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 application, 
Castilloa Elastica (Panama or Central American Eubber). — Seeds and Plants supplied. 
Sea our Circular No 32 for price, instructions and particulars, post free on application. 
Urceola Esculenta (Burma, Eubber). — A creeper Seed and Plants. 
Landolphia Kirkii (African Rubber). — A creeper Seed and Plants. 
Seeds and Plants of Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Clove, Koianut and different varieties of 
Coffee, Cacao, Tea, Coca, Fibre, Medicinal and Fruit trees, Shade and Timber trees, also Palms, 
Bulbs and Orchids, ic. 
Professor MacOwan writes : — 
Depaetmen't o» Agriculture, 
Messrs. William Bros. Cape Town, 27th Joly, 1898. 
Gentlemen,— I have this morninpr received your letter of 21st June covering parcel of Catalogues. 
It will give me pleasure to fuliil your wishes in regard to their distribution among likely purchasers. 
You 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 about the mouth of the Buffalo 
Kuni at East London. Pine Apples are now grown there far superior to the stuH" seut half ripe by sea 
from Natal. 
Always yours faithfully, 
[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 ftee on application. 
Agents in London :— Messrs. P. W. AVOOLLEY & Co., 33, Basinghall Street. 
Agent in Colomho, Ceylon :— E. B. CEEASY, Esq. 
Telegraphic Address J, p, WILLIAM & BROTHERS, 
William, Veyangoda, Ceylcn. Tropcal Seed Merchants, 
A.I. and A.B.C. Codes used. Hknaraigoda, CeyloN, 
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