AND THE MALAY STATES 
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year to Jamaica, Madras, Rangoon, Penang, and the botanic gardens 
at Buitenzorg, Java, while from the crop of 1888 there were sent to 
the Straits Settlements some 11,500, together with 1,000 to the Fiji 
Islands. 
Dr. Trimen made annual measurements of a typical tree at Hener- 
atgoda, which are as follows, the tree being planted in 1876. The meas- 
urements are circumferential, and taken, as is the custom, three feet 
from the ground : 
Trimen. 
Willis. 
1880 
1881 
1882 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1890 
1891 
1892 
1893 
1894 
.ift. 4 
r “ 9 
2 “ 1^2 
6 
0 
7 
1 
5F2 
0 
5 
1 
5 
IV \ 
8 
at about 5^ feet from the ground. 
The first of the above measure- 
ments was taken by Director Trim- 
en, and the latter by Director Willis, 
his successor, who says very justly 
that more useful data is secured by 
measurements that give the mean 
girth of all the trees. He therefore 
measured in 1897, forty-five trees 
that stand about thirty feet apart, 
that were then twenty-two years 
old. The measurement was taken 
The largest tree was 7 feet 5 inches, 
the smallest 2 feet 1 inch, the mean girth being 4f feet. 
In this connection it is interesting to note the measurements of wild 
Hevea frees made by Robert Cross in 1877* near Para. These trees 
had been tapped for from five to fifteen years, and their age was 
unknown. The figures are given here- 
with. 
All of these measurements were 
taken at three feet from the ground. It 
would seem, therefore, that the trees at 
Heneratgoda had about reached their 
growth. 
It is as a seed-bearing proposition 
that the garden I was visiting appealed 
to me most. A hasty bit of figuring gave 
0,000 and 4,000,000 Para seeds that had 
been sent out to planters all over the Eastern tropical world. A wonder- 
fully practical piece of work and one for which the tropical planter 
should be devoutly thankful. 
No. 1 
6 ft. 
9 in. 
No. 2 
6 “ 
10 “ 
No. 3 
4 “ 
7 
No. 4 
3 “ 
0 “ 
No. s 
10 “ 
No. 6 
3 “ 
No. 7 . . 
4 “ 
0 “ 
No. 8 
10 “ 
No. 9 
4 “ 
0 “ 
No. 10 
6 “ 
No. 11 ...... 
8 “ 
No. 12 
2 “ 
8 “ 
Mean ....... 
10 “ 
me the total 
of between 3,0 
