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supplying young plants to such parts of India as were suited for 
its growth. 
On June 14th, 1876, we received from Mr. Wickham about 70,000 
seeds of which about 4 per cent, germinated. On August 9th we 
despatched 1,919 plants raised from these seeds in Wardian Cases 
in charge of a gardener. Of the whole consignment 90 per cent, 
reached Dr. Thwaites in excellent condition. On August nth 50 
plants were sent to the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. Owing to the 
delay in payment of freight these plants all perished. 
On June nth 18^7, 22 plants were sent to the Botanic Gardens, 
Singapore. 
In October of this year Mr. MURTON, Superintendent of the 
Gardens. Singapore, planted himself 9 Heveas and 1 Castilloa at the 
back of the residency in Kwala Kangsa. “ Mr. Low reports, “ They 
were brought here in October last by Mr. MURTON and planted at 
the back of the residency and are growing very well. They were 
quite small when they arrived here but, the Castilloa is now (July 
26th, 1878) 5 feet high with branches of equal length and the Heveas 
vary from 4 to 8 feet and are growing vigorously.” In a subsequent 
report dated February 3rd, 1879, Mr. LOW writes “ the Heveas are 
now 12 to 14 feet high. They take to the country immensely. 
The Castilloa is a large tree 10 feet high with branches 5 feet long.’’ 
At the same time that these were planted some Para, Castilloa 
and Ceara rubbers were also planted at Durian Sabatang (Teluk 
Anson) but it appears they were washed away by a flood shortly 
after. 
In a later letter from Sir Hugh Low to the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
dated December nth, i8<J6, he writes 4< As I am writing I should 
like to mention that the Hevea Braziliensis which having received 
from Kew through Singapore I planted at Kwala Kangsar in Perak 
grew magnificently and fruited I believe two or three years before 
those of Ceylon. I distributed the seeds to various places in the 
neighbourhood and they are now to be found in Mr. Hills’ Coffee- 
Gardens in various parts of the Peninsula and in several places in 
Perak. When Mr. Swettenham was at home in the summer I 
enquired of him as to their condition and found they were not 
thought to be of any value as some Dyaks had tapped some of the 
largest trees and found that scarcely any juice exuded from them ” 
This unfortunate statement seems to have deterred Perak planters 
from paying any attention to Para rubber for some time. Sir 
Hugh Low obtained some seed from somewhere in 1882, and gave 
it to Mr. Wray who planted it at Kwala Kangsar. This may have 
come from the old trees there, for Sir Hugh Low sent seed (50) 
from Perak to the Singapore Gardens, the same year seeds were 
distributed from the Singapore Gardens, the first recorded being 
sent to the Bishop of Sarawak. 
This entirely disposes of the statements by Wray* and others 
that the. first seeds or plants introduced into Perak were introduced 
* Notes on Rubber growing in Perak (Thaiping iSy7.) 
