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From LOW’S letters in 1877 and 1878, one gathers that these plants 
were the only ones he possessed then, and the Ceylon cuttings are 
not even alluded to. It is probable therefore that they failed. 
The seeds sent in 1882, were, without doubt, those of the Singapore 
garden trees. Some of the original trees in the Singapore gardens 
sent from Kew still exist, and fromlthem were derived a large part 
of the younger trees which have Supplied so many seeds to the 
Malay Peninsula. In 1888, 1 1,000 seeds were obtained from Ceylon, 
sent loose in gunny bags, and a large proportion germinated. But 
by that year rubber seeds had been distributed over the Peninsula 
largely from the original trees and their descendants ; so that as 
explained previously, the greater part of the Para rubber trees in 
the Malay Peninsula were derived from the plants sent to the 
Botanic Gardens, Singapore, from Kew. However, it must be admit- 
ted that the seeds sent from Ceylon in 1888 have been very useful 
in helping to stock the Peninsula and other parts of the world 
lately . — Edito r. 
RUBBER NOTES. 
In the India rubber world of September 1st, 1905, the Editor 
reproduces the photograph of the old tapping scar left on a Para 
rubber tree figured in Bulletin. 
He remarks that while it was tapped with all reasonable care the 
bark was penetrated even to the wood. “ It will be seen that though 
several inches of woody grovrth formed over the tapped surface the 
scar still remained in the interior of the tree. The illustration is 
an especially interesting one and should carry a warning to planters 
against careless tapping.” Curiously we came to quite an opposite 
opinion on the same specimen. The tapping was very rough, the 
central cut being muck too broad. The striking thing was that 
though the wounds were very large and deep and a big area of 
wood denuded of cambium and exposed to the air there Is no trace 
of any decay, or real injury to the tree. A little black coloration 
about a millimetre thick is all the trace of any injury. The speci- 
men seems to show that a Para rubber tree will stand a great 
amount of loss of cambium without any injurious effect. 
I may say that of the trees tapped through the cambium in the 
Botanic Gardens, over 1,300 and many of them several times, only 
one tree has ever been injured even by the roughest tapping, and 
that was more of an accident than anything else.— Editor. 
Caterpillar attacking Tobacco Plants. 
Tobacco plants cultivated for commercial purposes or as orna- 
mental plants, are very liable to the attacks of Caterpillars, one of 
these identified as that of Chloridea assulta Green, by Sir GEORGE 
HaMPSGN, was found spoiling tobacco plants and also tomatos 
