June 1, 1904.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTUEIST. 
TO THE PLANTING WORLD. 
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Seeds SPIantsof Commercial Products. 
PARA RUBBER {Hevea Brasniensis) and PANAMA RUBBER 
{Castilloa Elastica) Stumps for immediate planting.— Now being 
forwarded to India, Burma, Straits, Borneo, Sumatra, &c„ care- 
fully packed to stand the transit well in a special mode in closed 
cases cost 6o per cent less than in Wardian cases. Orders 
booked for Hevea Seeds for August=September shipments, and 
Castilloa from May to August, 1904. Special offers of Stumps 
and Seeds, post free on application. A veteran Planter now in 
Travancore, who was twenty years in Ceylon, in ordering 10,000 
Para and Castilloa Rubber Stumps, writes under date 22nd April, 
1904 :— '* I enclose cheque on account for Rs. 300, balance will be 
sent on receipt of plants unless you insist otherwise." 
The following six Descriptive Price Lists are now being forwarded with Circulars and special oSef 
of Seeds and Plants of Rubber and other Economic Products : — 
1. Tropical Seeds and Plants of Commeriial 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, CoSee, 
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* 
jnents, Planters and others for supplying seeds and plants of Commercial Products in larger quantities. 
" South Apeica."— The great authority on South African afiairs of 25th March, 1899, sa3-s : — 
" An interesting Catalogue reaches us from the East. It is issued by William Bbothers, Tropical Seed 
Merchants of Henaratgoda, Ceylon, and schedules all the useful and beautiful plants which will thrive in 
tropical and seiri-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." 
Agents in London ;— Messks. P. W. WOOLLEY & Co., 90, Lower Thames Street. 
Agent in Colombo, Ceylon: — E. B. CEEASY, Esq. 
Agent in British Central Africa: — T. H. LLOYD, Esq., BlantjTe. 
OJJR DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LISTS. 
Telegraphic Address: 
William, Henaratgoda, Ceylon. 
Liber's, A.I. and A. B.C. Codes used, 
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J- P WILLIAM & BROTHERS, 
Tropical Seed Merchants, . 
Henar.^tCxQDa, Ceylon. 
