AND THE MALAY STATES 
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From the station I rode through a most densely populated native 
village, with narrow streets and a smell of stale fish that was simply 
appalling. Here we gathered a lot of flies, but as they ultimately settled, 
on the bullock’s hump, no especial annoyance came from their presence. 
Finally we reached the entrance to the gardens, turned in, and in due 
time found Mr. Perira, who at once put himself at my disposal. On the 
way he showed me some Ceara rubber trees which appeared to have 
grown well, but as that tree in Ceylon has not proved profitable, it was 
EXPERIMENT GARDEN, PERADENIVA. 
[Ceara rubber in foreground.] 
to me of only transient interest. I did, however, measure one, twenty 
years old, which was two feet in diameter three feet from the ground, 
and was probably fifty feet high. That it contained some latex I proved 
by cutting into it. 
A short distance away, on a somewhat lower level, was a grove of 
Heveas twenty years old, sixty to seventy feet high. They were planted 
about ten feet apart, and had taken full possession of the soil, no weeds 
