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are straight, single stems, but here several of the larger ones have divided 
trunks, I had a look at a few specimens of the Castilloa elastica, but 
they did not appear to be doing well. I was also interested to see a 
good specimen of the Landolphia florida, which did not strike me as 
a vine that it would be at all profitable to cultivate. 
PORTION OF OLD “HEVEa” TREE. 
[Showing proper healing of wounds that do not pass 
through the cambium, and injury caused by those that 
go too deep. Wounds made by chisel" and mallet. 
Heneratgoda Garden; tree 13 years old.] 
It is here at Heneratgoda gardens that the first successful planting 
of Para rubber occurred, and what is more important, it is due to the 
eminent scientists in charge of this garden and that at Peradeniya that 
we have any sort of knowledge of the growth and productiveness of 
the Hevea tree under cultivation. Their work dates back to 1876 under 
