No. 7.] 
JULY, 1908. 
[Vol. VII. 
Agricultural Bulletin 
OF THE 
STRAITS 
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FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
EDITED BY 
H. N. RIDLEY, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., 
Director of Botanic Gardens , S. S. 
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J. B. CARRUTHERS, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 
Director of Agriculture tfi Government Botanist , F.M.S. 
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CONTENTS. 
Big Rubber Trees in the Botanic Garden 
Bee Culture ... 
Nutmeg Cultivation in Singapore ... 
A Further Use for the Coconut. ... 
A Plea for Vegetable Cultivation ... 
Where Para Trees will not Grow ... 
Rubber Plants from Cuttings 
Rubber Planting in the West Indies 
A Disease of Cloves 
Banana Fibre 
Another Coconut Beetle 
Kabong Sugar 
Poisons Excreted by Plant Roots ... 
Acalypha fruticosa Forsk ... • •• ■ 
Minutes of General Meeting of Planters’ Association of Malaya 
Experiments with Rubber Seeds ... 
Rubber in Java 
Rubber Coagulation ... ... 
Rubber Cultivated in F. M. S. in 1907&19G8... 
Agri- Horticultural Show of 1908 ... 
Agriculture in Kelantan 
Distilled Spirits Industry in the Philippines ... 
Planting in California ... 
Fruiting of Sciadopitys verticillata 
International Rubber Exhibition ... 
Para Rubber Tree in Government Garden at Tenom 
Kuala Selangor Planters’ Association 
Gow, Wilson and Stanton Rubber Market Reports 
Ceylon, Straits and Malay States Rubber Reports 
Weather Reports 
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To be purchased at the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, or from 
Messrs. Kelly & Walsh. Limited. 
No. 32 Raffles Place, and 194 Orchard Road, Singapore. 
Singapore : 
Printed at the Methodist Publishing House. 
