• May 2, 1904 J 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
TO THE PLANTING WORLD. 
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Seeds & Plant s of Comfne rcial Prodiicts. 
Hevea Brasiliensis.— Orders being booked for the coming crop August-September delivery 
1904, booking necessary before the end of April, quantities of 100,000 and over at special low rates. Plant 
available all the year round, 100,000 and over at special low rates. A leading Rubber planter in Sumatra 
who purchased 50,001 seeds in 1899, and 100,000 in 1900, writes us, under date 15th November, 1900 : " I 
received your letter of *20th October, from which I learn that you added another case of 5,000 seeds to replace 
the loss, &c. I am satisfied hereby, and even after this adding I am satisfied by the whole delivery of this 
year." Special offer, post free on application. 
Castilloa Elastica.— Seeds from specially reserved old untapped trees. Orders booked for 
delivery 1904, immediate booking necessary ; large 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 Caatilloa seeds, in which month we might expect them, and what would be the 
average price." Special ofler, post free on application. 
Manlhot Glaziovli.— 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 groimd where the 
Castilloa does not thrive." 
Ficus Elastica.— Seeds available in May- June ; booking necessary before the end of March, 
also plants. 
Cinnamomum Zeylanicum (Cinnamon superior variety).— New crop of seed in April to June ; 
booking necessary before the end of February, also plants. 
Coffee Arabica-Liberian Hybrid.— A highly recommended 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 9th September, 1901:—" Please accept our order 
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 
our judgment." 
Forestry Bureau of a Foreign Government, writes under date 21st December, 1903 : " Your letter of 
December 1st and the six Catalogues mailed by you under separate cover have been received. Please accept 
our thanks for the same. You will undoubtedly receive an order for seeds for this Bureau in the mar 
future, as we contemplate purchasing quite a large amount. ' 
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 Commeroial 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 Lands, Avenues, Hedges, and for planting among crops (Tea, Coffee 
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, Crotons 
■Roses, Dracinas, Shrubs and Creepers. ' ' 
Special Arrangements made with foreign Governments, Botanical and Agricultural Depart, 
ments, Planters and others for supplying seeds and plants of Commercial Products in larger quantities. 
" South Africa." — 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 Brothers, Tropical Seed 
Merchants of Honaratgoda, Ceylon, and schedules all the useful and beautiful plants which will thrive in 
tropical and semi-tropical regions. We 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 were 
worth the grabbing. We recommend the great Powers and Concessionaries under them to go to William 
Brothers." 
Age7its in London ;— Messrs. P. W. WOOLLEY & Co., 90, Lower Thames Street. 
Agent in Colombo, Ceylon .•— E. B. CREASY, Esq. 
Agent in British Central Africa:— T. H. LLOYD, Esq., BlantjTe. 
Telegraphic Address: J. P WILLIAM & BROTHERS 
William, Henaratgoda, Ceylon. Tropical Seed Merchants, 
Liber's, A.I. and A.B.C. Codes used, Henak.vtgoda, Ceylon. 
