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The following table gives the details of germinations of seeds of 
Para rubber at the Botanic Gardens during the two years 1905-7 : 
1 
Number 0 
Seeds 
f Where obtained 
from 
| i 
Number of ! 
Plants 
raised 
Percentage of 
Germination 
1905-6 
50 
Para, Brazil 
1 I 
None 
1906-7 
1 
20,000 
Received from 
Messrs. Booker 
Bros., McCon- 
nell and Co., 
from (Ceylon) 
6,000 
30 
12,000 
Presented by 
Hon. B. Howell 
Jones 
. None 
25,000 
Ceylon 
1,000 
4 
1,200 
Botanic Gardens, 
Singapore 
900 
75 
[ 
01 
0 
0 
Royal Botanic 
Gardens , Ceylon 
100 
20 
The following table gives particulars of the shipments of Para 
rubber seeds imported from the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, by the 
Department of Science and Agriculture and germinated at the 
Botanic Gardens, Georgetown, since 1907 : - 
Botanic Gardens, Singapore. 
1907-8 
10,800 
(Spring crop) 
6,955 
64. 4 
*52,000 
(Autumn crop) 
42,100 
80.00 
1908-9 
50,000 
(Autumn crop) 
43 J 50 
86. 3 
1909-IO 
30,131 
(Autumn crop) 
21,609 
70. 0 
I 9 I 0 -II 
29,676 
(Spring crop) 
20,465 
68 . 9 
:>tal 
303 
(Intermediate crop) 
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46. 0 
1907-10 
172,957 
134.4 19 
77-7 
It has been demonstrated that the most satisfactory method is to 
obtain seeds packed in weathered, charred rice dust in biscuit tins 
direct by parcel post, with about 500 seeds per tin. The autumn 
crop of seeds has given much better germination than has the spring- 
crop as much as 86 having been obtained from the former as against 
■Since the seeds obtained from the Botanic gardens have been obtained packed in charred 
rice dust in biscuit. tins and sent by parcel post, the average germination of seeds of the autumn 
crop has been nearly 8t% while the average germination of the spring and intermediate crop 
seeds has been 6 7 -<U. In 1907-8 at the same time as 52,000 seeds were obtained from the Botanic 
Gardens through the parcel post with 8oi germination a shipment of lo,5to seeds obtained by 
freight was sent to the Botanic Gardens for germination and 18 plants were raised. Several 
other shipments have been obtained by private firms, bv freight, and □!: have resulted dis- 
astrously. 
