5gi 
2. Blimbing Preserve. 5 days. 
80 Blimbings. 0 
4 catties sugar. 
2 young cocoanuts. 
£ lb. sugar-candy. 
Rub the fruit gently in salt till quite soft, being very careful not 
to break the skins. 
Drop the fruit in basin of cold water. . . 
Wash and squeeze about 10 times, each time in fresh wate 
(This is to remove acid, and salt.) . , ... 
Leave the fruit soaking in cold water while the sugar is boiling. 
Add \ lb. of sugar-candy to boiling sugar. 
Now boil in another saucepan, the cocoanut water. 
When this is boiling, drop the blimbings into it, and let them boil 
for a few minutes. , , 
Take the fruit out, and put them in a bowl of cold water, squeeze 
them, and now drop them into the boiling sugar for a few minutes, 
when remove and place in an empty bowl. , 
Pour the boiling sugar into a separate bowl, and when both the 
fruit and syrup are cold, drop the fruit carefully into the cold syrup 
and leave till next day. 
Boil the sugar separately again 3 or 4 days successively, soaKin & 
the fruit in the cold syrup each time for 24 hours, before repeating 
the process. 
Note.— The Blimbing is a very acid fruit and very juicy. Hence 
the long process. When completed, the fruit should be quite trans- 
parent/ the seeds perfectly visible through the skin. The syrup is 
delicious, and can be eaten separately like honey. The fruit should 
not be picked too young. 
L. E. BLAND. 
EUNTUMIA ELASTICA. 
The following notes on the Lagos silk rubber from the Annual 
Report of the Botanic Gardens of the Gold Coast at Akuri are of 
interest : — . . 
“ Seventy-five more plants were added to the plantation ot these 
trees in the Gardens. Those planted last year have made satis- 
factory progress despite the repeated attacks of the small larvae of 
a moth which infested the plants in hundreds eating their young 
Laves and branches. These pests have now been exterminated 
by repeated applications of lime and ashes and sprayings of Bor- 
deaux mixture have ridded the plants of a Fungus Pest “ Meliola. 
One of the trees planted out in the Gardens in 1897, was tapped 
this year as an experiment to test the amount of rubber it was 
capable of producing at this age. The tree operated on had grown 
26 feet with a trunk of 1 foot 7 inches in circumference at 3 * ee t 
from the ground and was about 2 years old when planted. After 
the moisture from the latex obtained by this experiment had been 
