8 
Some Mexican Plantations. 
I have in a previous publication (Bulletin II, La Zacualpa 
Botanical Station, “ Notes on*Rubber Culture in Mexico") tenta- 
tively divided Mexico into a number of rubber districts, the 
northernmost being that of Tierra Blanca, in the State of Vera Cruz. 
The number of plantations in this district is small. Among these 
may be mentioned Hacienda Yale, owned by a number of former 
students of Yale University, and La Esperanza, first started by 
Mr. Geo. Cullen* Pearson, representing British capital. 
Not far from Perez station on the Vera Cruz and Pacific 
railroad is the Playa Vicentp district, containing several small 
plantations. In this neighbourhood, along the Papaloapan river, 
are a number of other rubber plantations which all can go under 
the name of the Tuztepec district. . * 
Further south, and not very far from Santa Lucrecia we have 
the important Trinidad River district. This is often included in 
the general term of “the Isthmus," but conditions are in many 
respects differing from those on the Isthmus proper. This latter 
is a very large district comprising the rubber country along the 
National Tehuantepec railroad, and along the Coatzacoalcos river 
or its tributaries. 
One of the largest plantations on the Isthmus is Rubio, situ- 
ated some distance from the township of MinatitJan. It is owned 
i>y the Tehuantepec Rubber Company of New York. Its able 
manager is Mr. A. B. Luther, w T ho has had a long Merican expe- 
rience, and also has studied conditions in the South American 
rubber districts. Rubio plantation has some 3,000 acres under 
rubber. Oaxaquena, Columbia and Del Corte are some of the other 
larger rubber plantations in the district 
In the Trinidad j&iver district the largest plantation is La 
Junta, owned by the Mexican Mutual Planter’s Association, of 
Chicago. It has some 4,500 acres under rubber besides a large 
acreage in coffee and cacao. Its manager is Mr. J. C. Harvey, 
who also is part owner of an adjoining rubber plantation, Buena 
Ventura. Here Mr. Harvey, who is very much interested in 
botany, has a small botanic garden of his own, the only one, in fact, 
in the country. Some fifty different species of palms, a good sized 
collection of native and foreign orchids, many economic plants, 
and ornamental trees and shrubs surround his house. The only 
Para trees yet grown in Mexico are to be found here, and are 
Mr. Harvey s special treasures. Many of the trees and plants in 
this collection are raised from seeds obtained from Singapore 
Botanic Gardens, *with the Director of which Mr. Harvey is in 
frequent correspondence. 
Another very extensive rubber district is situated along, the 
Grijalva river, and the Usumacinta river system constitutes a 
district covering a large area. Lastly on the Pacific slope of 
Chiapas, between the towns of Pijijiapan and Tapachula, we have 
the Zacualpa district, very limited in area. 
Some eighteen years ago t'elaez , then owner of La Zacualpa, 
in Soconusco, planted rubber as shade for cacao, and of these trees 
