The following table shows the countries which took the amount 
exported during 1903 : — 
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- 
Quantity. 
Bales. 
United States ... ... 
57 5.167 
Cuba 
8,066 
United Kingdom 
4,286 
Canada ... ... 
1,200 
France, Spain, Germany & Belgium 
i,;ii 
(Mr. Consul Llay’s report on Vera Cruz 
for the year 1903. p. 24.) 
RUBBER NOTES. 
f 
In Mr. PEARSON’S interesting account of his experiences in tra- 
velling through Ceylon and the Peninsula published in the India 
Rubber World , he accredits the Editor with saying that he took 
900 pounds of rubber from too trees in one season, and three 
pounds from a three-year old tree. As this statement has found 
its way into one or two other journals and is not quite accurate, 
it requires a little emendation. The statement implies that it was 
the trees of the Botanic Gardens which supplied these exceptional 
amounts. The first statement, vis., that 100 trees gave an average 
of 9 pounds per tree. This did not refer to the Garden’s trees, but 
to those of an estate in Perak. From 9 to 12 lbs. have been taken 
from a number of trees in several places in the Peninsula, but 
planters must not be so sanguine as to expect to get such returns 
always. The three pounds from a single three-year old tree was 
taken many years ago from a tree in Kwala Lumpor. an isolated 
tree, I believe, in the hospital grounds, but I cannot lay hands on 
my original note of this. One of these trees was reported to have 
grown to a height of thirty feet in eighteen months from seed. 
Of course as all planters know some trees occasionally give extra- 
ordinary and exceptional results, but these though interesting are 
not of so much practical importance as the lower figures of average 
results. 
Rubber in French hido-C kitta. — Dr. Hai 1 NER of Saigon Gardens 
publishes in the Bulletin Economique for August tables of growth 
of Para trees in the Experimental Gardens of Ong Lem with a 
photogravure of a row of trees 5.I years old. The trees are planted 
