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The honey both in comb, and run, shown by Father Gex 
would be hard to beat and the wax produced was of the highest 
quality. 
Samples of the comb of the large wild bee Apis dorsalis were 
also exhibited. This is the common large bee which produces only 
one large comb upon the branch of a tree, and is not suited for 
agriculture. Its wax collected by natives in the forests is, however, 
an article of trade and of fairly good quality but usually very 
yellow. 
Spices . — These were hardly as good as we remember to have 
seen in byegone shows. There were, however, fourteen exhibits 
of dry nutmegs, some of which were decidedly good, and twelve 
samples of fresh nutmegs in the husk. The best of the nutmegs 
competing, however, were not to be compared with the sample of 
Banda nutmegs shown by Mr. Diepenheim, which of course are 
a very much larger class of nutmeg than those we usually get from 
the Peninsula. 
Cloves were fairly good but many better samples have been 
staged at the earlier shows, and there were only ten exhibits. 
Mace both red and yellow were of fairly good quality taken 
all round, and some of the red mace was quite superior. 
Collections of spices for curries were represented by five exhi- 
bits, some of which were very complete in the number of kinds of 
spices shown. They were in some cases too very nicely put up, 
but there was a tendency to give very small samples of each kind 
of spice. 
Some excellent samples of Curry Powder of a very special make 
were shown by Watt Lee & Co. 
Pepper . — Both black and white was fairly well shown, and 
some of the samples were first class. But the number ofiexhibits 
was not as large as in the former days when pepper was so largely 
cultivated. There were many fine examples of white pepper which 
were disqualified owing to their having been grown outside our 
area. 
Ginger and Turmeric . — Were both good and abundantly shown. 
The turmeric, however, was mostly rather small in the rhizome. 
The Ginger was good, and some of large size. Both in these classes 
and in that of arrowroot, some exhibitors have a tendency to 
send their samples unwashed and coated with mud. Although this 
does not necessarily count as a point against the exhibit, yet it 
detracts from the appearance of the sample and is a distinct defect 
in staging. 
Patchouli was well represented. A larger number of exhibits 
being staged than on previous occasions. Kamuning Estate came 
well to the front again with some beautifully prepared leaves, and 
there were other good samples, but some of those shown were too 
full of stalk. 
Tuba root was shown in very extensive series, with roots 
of all sizes and forms. They were all fair to good and formed a 
difficult class to judge. Among them several nati^s showed 
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