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lead into the Klang and the Damansara River. The oldest planting was 
made in May, 1898, and was 24X36 feet, this planting being quincunxed 
in the latter part of the same year and in October, 1900, was still further 
interplanted. The last planting, however, is so thoroughly shaded by the 
earlier that it is doubtful if it amounts to anything. The trees in the 
“hevea" on the vallambrosa estate, klang. 
first planting average 28^ inches in circumference, three feet from the 
ground, the largest being forty-seven and 52^ inches in circumference. 
Of the plantings already mentioned, there were ninety acres 24X36 
feet, and forty-five acres 14X14. These latter showed an average of 
29! inches circumference at the base, and nineteen inches five feet from 
