AND THE MALAY STATES 
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THIRD LETTER. 
Tapping Rubber Trees at Peradeniya Garden— Visit to the New Experi- 
ment Station — Seventy-five Year Old Ficus Elastica — The Stump Speech — 
Kandy — Temple of the Sacred Tooth— Hotel Tips — On the Way to Kalatura 
— Early Tea at the “Rest House’' — M u. Harrison and Culloden Estate. 
S PEAKING again of canker, and the absence of the disease on the 
South American Hevea trees, Mr. Carruthers said that it was 
quite possible that individual trees there might have been attacked 
by it, but as the trees are wild, and grow singly, the disease, after exhaust- 
ing its victim, would probably die out, as it would have no other Hevea 
SATINWOOD BRIDGE, PERADENIYA. 
near enough to reach. This, of course, led up to what has been proved 
since planting of any sort has been carried on on any considerable scale. 
That is, the occurrence of diseases and insects unknown before, but which 
found in great plantings of a single kind the most favorable field for 
rapid growth and reproduction. 
