and unsatisfactory condition when I arrived the matter appeared 
utterly hopeless but now some of them are keeping their plantations 
better and with the conditions it was desired at the recent Residents' 
Conference in Taiping to impose on newly alienated land 1 shall 
endeavour during the current year to do what I can to give them 
some hints on the subject. My staff too without necessarily inter- 
fering with their present work might on their rounds perhaps, 
under my instructions, rend.er some assistance in teaching the 
natives something about this. 
7. Alluding to para. 8 oT Mr. Arden’s letter of 19th September, 
1903, l believe many of the apparently abandoned coffee lands, 
where there are a few of the coffee trees still to be seen, might be 
well worth recultivating by the natives ; the ground would not be 
very difficult to clean, many of the coffee trees could I think be 
brought into bearing and the sale of the product go a long way to- 
wards expense of upkeep. Coconuts and other catch crops could 
also be planted where the useless coffee trees have to be dug out and 
in other vacant spaces. 
8. In conclusion ray further suggestion and one I strongly re- 
commend, is that a system of rewards for some time at least, be 
introduced and prizes given tor well kept plantations as an induce- 
ment to the natives to take more interest in cultivation generally. 
I have the honour to be, 
Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
L. C. BROWN, 
Inspector of Coconut Trees , 
F. M. S, 
To, 
The Federal Secretary , F. M . S , 
Kuala Lumpur. 
o — 
NOTE ON JELUTONG. 
Mr. BasAGO/T/, (Assistant Conservator for Selangor) in a report 
states that at Uiu Langat he found certain Malay rubber collectors, 
who said that they mixed Jelutong Getah with the bark juice of the 
Pagarana (Pagar Anak tree) to harden it. This juice is also say 
they used by fishermen for dyeing nets. 
The Pagar Anak tree is Ixonanthes ico sandra, of the order Line as. 
It is a very common tree rarely of large size usually about 30 feet 
tall, with corymbs of petatless green flowers, and small sticky cap- 
sules. 
