to PLANTERS AND OTHERS- 
M SEEDS AND PLANTS ^ 
OF 
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS- 
Hevea Brasiiiensis (Para Rubber) — -Seeds aad 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 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 18 inches high." This 
seed was put in nursery eight months after gathering. 
A Mercantile firm who ordered .30,000 Para Rubber plants in 60 Wardian cases, 500 
plants in each, wrote 5th April, 1898 : — " I note that you accept delivery of 60 cases. We 
shall probably require further supply of seeds and plants." 
■ Fo7- 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. 
Gastilloa Elastica (Panama or Central American Rubber). — Seeds and Plants supplied 
Sec our Circular No. 32 for price, instructions and particulars, post free on application. 
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 diff'erent varieties of 
Coffee, Cacao, Tea, Coca, Fibre, Medicinal and Fi-uit trees, Shade and Timber trees, also Palms 
Bulbs and Orchids, kc. 
Professor MacOwan writes : — 
Department of Agriculture, 
Messrs. William Bros. Cape Town, 27th July, 1898. 
Gentlemen, — I have this moinin<' received your letter of 21st Jane covering parcel of Catalogues* 
It will give ine pleasure to fallil 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 (Joast strip of this Colony, particularly about the mouth of the Bull'alo 
Rum at East Loudon, Pine Apples are now grown there far superior to the stuff sent half ripe by sea 
from Natal. 
Always yours faithfully, 
(Signed) P. MacOWAN, 
Government Botanist, 
OvLT enlarged Descriptive Price List of Tropical Seeds and Plants of Commercial 
Products for 1899-1900 now in the press, post free on application. 
Agcnh in London :— Messks. P. W. WOOLLEY k Co., 33, Basinghall Street. 
A(jcnt ill Colombo, Ceylon : — E. B. CREASY, Esq. 
Tcleyraphic Address ; 
William, Vevangoda, Ceylon. 
A.I. and A. B.C. Codes used. 
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V. WILLIAM & BROTHERS, 
Tropical Seed Merchants, 
1IENAKAK.0DA, CeVLuN. 
