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RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 
Polgahawela and Rambukkana, by the side of the track, is a very con- 
siderable plantation of Hevea, covering some sixty acres, the trees being 
planted about eight feet apart. They are about three years old, and 
would average, for a guess, thirty feet in height. 
Further on, as we still ascended, the valley below was often a series 
of terraced paddy plots for miles. Then as we still skirted the valley, 
PER A DENI Y A GARDEN. 
fMr. Carruthers inoculating a young Hevea with Canker.] 
which was farther and farther below us, we crept through many tunnels, 
clung to the sides of precipices, getting occasional glimpses of Adam’s 
Peak, the famous mountain of the island, and still far below, we saw 
winding through the jungle — crossing rivers — the white roads, hard, 
smooth, wide, equal to any park roads at home, and then up, up, we 
climbed, the cabbage palms, bread fruit trees, and tropical growths now 
finding their home on the rocks, or in the wash of steep mountain ravines. 
