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RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 
a two or three years’ vacation. By the time we had examined a few 
Castilloa trees that were planted by way of experiment, night had fallen, 
and we wended our way back to the bungalow, where, after a hot bath, 
as is the custom of the country, we sat down to dinner in pajamas, the 
“punkah walla” stirring the heavy, moist air by most vigorous pulls 
at the “punkah” cord throughout tlr meal. 
“hevea” trees at culloden 
[Eighteen years old from planting.] 
The rainfall up here in Kalutara is rather more than down at the 
coast, being, so I was informed, one hundred and forty-four inches, and 
the maximum temperature 94 0 F. While I was there it was unusually 
dry, yet the rubber looked well and there was a record of six weeks with- 
out rain, which had no apparent effect upon it. The next morning we 
