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TO TH E PLANTING WORLD. 
Seeds&PlantsofGommercial Products. 
Hevea Brasiliensis.— Ordofs being booked for the coming crop August-September delivery 
1903, booking necessary before the end of April, quantities of 100,000 and over at special low rates. Plants 
available all the year round, 100, OUO and over at special low rates. A leading Rubber planter in Sumatra, 
who purchased 50,000 seeds in 1899, and 100,000 in 1900, writes us, under date 15th November, 1900 :— " I 
received your letter of "iOth October, from which I learn that you added another case of 5,000 seeds to replace 
the loss, &c. T am satisfied hereby, and even after this adding I am satisfied by the whole delivery of this 
year." Special ofier, post free on application. 
Castilloa Elastica- — True superior variety cultivated in Mexico, seeds from specially reserved 
old untapped trees. Orders booked for October-November delivery 1903, immediate booking necessary ; 
largo quantities on special terms ; Plants in Wardian cases. 
A foreign firm of Planters writes under date 11th October, 1901 : — " We beg to enquire whether you 
would procure us 100,000 Castilloa seeds, in which month we might expect them, and what would be the 
average price." Special olier, post free on application. 
Manihot QiaziovJii — Seeds and Plants available all the year round, 100,000 and over at special 
low rates. A Mexican planter in sending an order for this seed wrote on the 22nd August, 1900 : — "If they 
arrive fresh and germinate easily I may send you larger orders, as they are for high ground where the 
Castilloa does not thrive." 
Ficus Elastica. — Seeds available in May-June ; booking necessary before the end of March 
also plants. 
Mimusops Qlobosa (Balata) wood of the tree is much sought for buildings, fruits sweet like a plum 
and eaten, oil from seeds, said to yield as much as 45 lbs. of dry rubber per tree per annum, the milk is 
drunk and when diluted with water used as cow's milk, grow from-sea-level up to 2,000 feet, orders being 
booked for seeds and plants, price on application. 
Cinnamomutn Zeylanicum (Cinnamon superior variety),— New crop of seed in April to June ; 
booking necessary before the end of February, also plants. 
Coffee Arabica-Liberiati Hybrid.— A highly recomnaended leaf-disease resisting hardy new 
variety of Coffee (cross between Arabian and Liberian). New crop March- April ; immediate booking necessary, 
A foreign Agricultural Department writes dating 9tli September, 1901: — " Please accept our ordeu 
for 175 lbs. of Tea seed and for 2,000 Coffee beans. In regard to Coffee seed I would say that this will be the 
first importation made by this department, and we will leave the selection of the varieties to be sent to 
your judgment." 
OUR DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LISTS. 
. The following six Descriptive Price Lists are now being forwarded with Circulars and special offer 
of Seeds and Plants of Rubber and other Economic Products : — 
1. Tropical Seeds and Plants of Oommeriial Products, enlarged edition for 1902-1903. 
2. Seeds and Plants of Shade, Timber, Wind-Belts, Fuel and Ornamental Trees, Trees for Road- 
sides, Parks, Open Spaces, Pasture Lauds, Avenues, Hedges, and for planting among crops (Tea, Cofiee, 
Cacao, Cardamoms, &c.) 
3. Seeds and Plants of Tropical Fruit Trees including Mango grafts. 
4. Bulbs, Tubers and Yams. 
5. Orchids — Ceylon and Indian, 
6. Seeds and Plants of Palms, Calamus, Pandanus, Cycads, Tree and other Ferns, Crotousj 
Roses, Dracinas, Shrubs and Creepers. 
Special Arrangements made with foreign Governments, Botanical and Agricultural Depart, 
inents, Planters and others for supplying seeds and plants of Commercial Products in larger quantities. 
" South Apeica."— The great authority on South African affairs of 2.5th March, 1899, says: — 
" An interesting Catalogue reaches us from the [East. It is issued by William Beothers, Tropical Seed 
Merchants of Henaratgoda, Ceylon, and schedules alltha useful and beautiful plants which 'will thrive in 
tropical and semi-tropical regions. Wo 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 wrea 
worth the grabbing. We recommend the great Powers and Concessionaries under them to go to William 
Brothors." 
Agents in London .—Messrs. P. W. WOOLLEY & Co., 90, Lower Thames Street. 
■ Agent in Colombo, Ceylon ;— E. B. CEEASY, Esq. 
Agent in British Central Africa:—!^, H. LLOYD, Esq., Blautyre, 
Telegraphic Address: J. p. WILLIAM & BROTHERS, 
William, Henaratgoda, Ceylon. Tropical Seed Merchants, 
JJiber's, A.I. and A.B.O. Codca used. Henaratgoda, Ceylon. 
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