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around the trunk at three feet from the ground, V think this will 
be hard to beat elsewhere in India or Ceylon. This is certain y 
very good growth, and augurs well for the cultivation of this tree in 
Southern India. 
H. N. R. 
RUBBER EXHIBITION IN CEYLON. 
The Rubber exhibition to be held at Peradeniya in Ceylon from 
the 13th to the 27th September next -ought to be an interesting one. 
All kinds of things connected with rubber, samples of al kinds 
machinery, etc. will be shown. It seems however a pity that the 
exhibition should not be held in Colombo where it could be seen by 
the travelling public who are passing through the port and who 
would be unable to get inland as far as Peradeniya. Entries are to 
be made to E. B. DENHAM, Esq., Secretariat, Colombo, before 
July 31. — Editor. 
NEW PAMPHLET ON RUBBER. 
A Compilation of Notes on India Rubber and G-utta Percha 
By Captain G. O. Ahern, 
Director of Forestry , Manila. 
This little pamphlet of 40 pages consists of a variety of extracts 
from the India Rubber World, India Rubber Journal, Encyclopaedia 
Britanica and a few other sources. It is in no sense an up-to-date 
work on rubber planting. The notes are collected, says the author, 
alter a number of requests had been made to him for information 
on the market and prospects of rubber in the Philippines, and the 
notes may be useful to would be planters in the Philippines. No 
information however as to trees in the Philippines is given. An 
account of the licence system for jungle produce and a statement 
of how public land may be acquired will be useful to those who 
either engage in the trades of wild rubbers and gutta perchas or 
intend to take up land. An extremely poor list of the really enor- 
mous literature of India Rubber ends the pamphlet. And a map 
of the islands is added showing the distribution of Gutta Percha 
chiefly in Mindanao, and India Rubber chiefly in Mindoro, which 
is probably (Lat. 13) too far north for Para Rubber. The best 
chance for it would be the extreme south. 
H. N. R. 
TAPPING METHODS. 
Under the heading “Careful tapping in the Amazons valley” 
Weekly Times of Ceylon, May iS, p. 12, is given an account of an 
interview with Mr. WICKHAM who condemns the herring-bone 
