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of this rubber we have seen, Mr. Bailey shewed excellent samples. 
One untoward thing occurred in the judging of the rubber classes, 
Mr. Lake and Pagets’ cup for any rubber of other class than what 
took first prize in Para rubber, was awarded to a good sample of 
sheet rubber, entered in the name of a Chinaman, who it proved 
later was merely a buyer and not a cultivator. In cases like this 
the prize should really belong to the grower and preparer of the 
rubber and not the mere agent, who has no claim to it. 
A prize offered for improved rubber machinery was awarded to 
an improved roller for making sheet rubber. It is needless to > 
that both in quantity and quality the exhibition of rubber was an 
immense improvement on the display of last year’s Show, and was 
an exhibition of which the planters might well be proud. 
Flowers and Plants. 
The exhibition of horticulture was by no means what it has been 
at previous Shows, and was little if at all better than that of last 
year’s Show at Kwala Lumpur, a very large number of the classes, 
in the schedule were not at all represented. The flowers were 
scanty and on the whole poor, the foliage plants not up to standard, 
why this should be one cannot say, but one cannot help feeling that 
we have not now-a-days the horticulturists of some years back. In 
a country where so many fine and beautiful plants can be easily 
grown, it is regrettable to see so poor a Show staged. 
A fine Grammatophyllum speciosum with eight flower spikes 
shewn by Mr. A. Oecitale was very attractive. The Cantonese Club 
showed a fine series of cock’s combs and of asters, but beside this 
there was practically nothing in the way of flowering plants to look 
at. The Botanic Gardens of Penrng shewed some fine Cattleyas 
and other orchids, and the beautiful white, red and pink Tobaccos, 
Nicotiana Sanderiana and a finis and a number of pinks which 
brightened up the exhibition considerably of foliage-plants. Mr. 
John Brown shewed a good group of aroids and Mr. Machado 
brought from Kamuning a very fine pot of white Caladium ; Mrs. 
LOGAN took a prize with a large Asparagus plant. Palms were 
somewhat better shewn, Kow Jo Tok took the first prize for six 
palms, well grown but common kinds, Mr. Machado showed some 
of the rarer nature palms from the Kamuning woods, including 
both forms of new Pinanga acaulis and Iguanuara Wallichii, and 
took the first prize for specimen palm with a well grown Licuala 
grandis . 
Mr. TAN Tin Bee shewed a nice little lot of palms also includ- 
ing the gem of the whole of the foliage plants, a perfect specimen of 
the beautiful and rare Licuala orbicularis from Borneo. 
Two lots of the Chinese grotesque plants were shown, both good 
of their kind. 
Mrs. J, Brown shewed a fairly good group of various plants. 
A few medium Crotons, a poor lot of Begonias, some mediocre 
ferns and Selaginiellas made up the rest of this part of the exhibition. 
The cut and arranged flowers were scanty, the roses were fairly 
