TO PLANTERS AND OTHERS. 
OF 
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS- 
Hevea Brasiliensis (Para Kubber). — -Seeds and Plants supplied, iramediato deliv^ery, 
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 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 wlio 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 18 inches high." This 
seed was put in nursery eight months after gathering. 
A Mer;;antile firm who ordered .30,000 Para Rubber plants in 60 Wardian cases, 500 
plants in each, wrote 6th April, 1898 : — "1 note that you accept delivery of 60 cases. We 
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 <S to 12 months. 
For price, instructions and particulars, see our Circular No. 31, post free on application. 
Ca^tilloa Elastica (Panama or Central American Rubber). — Seeds and Plants supplied 
See our Circular No, 38 for price, instructions and particulars, post free on applicatimi. 
Urceola Esculenta (Burma Rubber).— A creeper Seed and Plants. 
Landolphia Kirkii (African Rubber). — A creeper Seed and Plants. 
Seeds and Plants of Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Clove, Kolanut and different varieties of 
Coffee, Cacao, Tea, Coca, Fibre, Medicinal and Fruit trees. Shade and Timber trees, also Palais, 
Buliis and Orchids, &c. 
Professor MacOwan writes : — 
Department op Aqriculture, 
Messrs. William Bro.s. Cape Town, 27th Jtjly, 1898. 
Gentlemen, —I liave this niornino' received your letter of 21st June covering parcel of Catalogues. 
It will give ine pleasure to fulfil your wishes in regard to their distribution among likely pureliasera. 
Yoif will be glad to learn that we have very good reports of the success of the senii-tropical tilings 
sent Ijy you f.o the little E istern Goast-strip of this Colony, particularly about the mouth of the Bulialo 
Hum at. East London. Pino Afiples are now grown there far superior to the stulf seat half ripe by sea 
from Natal. 
Always yours faithfully, 
(Signed) P. MacOWAN, 
Goveryiment 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. 
yf(7t'?i/s i/t-iMi(?oft :— Messrs. P. W. WOOLLEY <k Co., 33, Basinghall Street, 
Agent in Colombo, Ceylon; — E. B, CREASY, Esq. 
Tckgraphic Address ; J. p. WILLIAM & BROTHERS, 
WiMAM, Vkyangoda, Ceylln. Tropical Seed Merchants, 
A.I. and A.B.C. Codes used, Henaratgoda, Ckylon. 
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