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fmd tins is a mistake. Neither grows as thick as either 
would have done if alone. The foliage of each is one side 
only and such trees being lop-sided are very liable to suffer 
from wind. 
“ Warts” and “Peas.” 
The growths, commonly called “warts” or “peas,” 
are to be found on nearly all trees. Tapping does not 
appear to induce them as they are found on untapped trees 
of three years and older. I believe they are dormant buds. 
They should be taken out when quite young; this is easily 
done by a tap from a hammer or with a. strong knife. The 
wound soon heals over completely. The practice of many 
planters baying their old trees examined systematically at 
periodical intervals for these excrescences is worthy of 
wider application. The rough outgrowths, often several 
square inches or even square feet in area, which usually 
begin at the bottom on trees where the early tapping has 
been bad, seem to be a disease not due to any parasitic 
organism but to some derangement in the internal economy 
of the tree induced perhaps by severe tapping. 
Close Planting. 
With regard to distance in planting it is of interest to 
record that on Caledonia Estate 378 lbs. of dry rubber per 
acre was obtained in one year from seven vear old trees, 
planted 10 feet by 10 feet. 
W. J. Gallaghek, 
PACKING DURIAN SEEDS FOR EXPORT. 
During the past year several experiments have been 
carried out at the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, in order to 
determine the best method of packing Durian ( Du no 
dbethimis ) seeds for export to other tropical Colonies. 
Hitherto it had been thought that seeds of this much sought 
for fruit would not travel any distance successfully owing 
to it germinating so quickly after becoming, ripe and there 
would appear to be some grounds for this assumption, in 
fact several attempts were made in years past to send seeds 
from this Department to Ceylon with scanty success. 
These failures must however, have been due to a want of 
knowledge as to the proper method of packing and not so 
much to the inability of the seeds to retain their germinat- 
ing powers for any lengthy period. 
