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in Penang. 1 am in hopes however that a fair proportion of cuttings from large trees 
treated m the same manne^ will succeed and experiments will be commenced as soon 
as the season is suitable. 
■S. I he so cajled young plants used tor propagation (which 1 prefer to call 
stumps to distinguish them from truly young seedlings or cuttings) are found plenti- 
u in places near where I was staying. 1'bey are in reality old suppressed seedlings 
from the size of a lead pencil to that of a man’s little linger, with a long tap root two 
to t hu I u. tong, ms thick as a man s thumb, and perhaps twenty or more years old. • 
1 hey are pulled up and cut back to within about six inches of the point that was 
level with the ground, and then planted horizontally on a sloping bank in damp shady 
jungle until they make new erect shoots at right angles to the stem' with two or three 
fully developed reaves, when they are cut off with about two inches of the old wood 
attached, and planted in boxes until they root. The process is a slow one, and plants 
aige enough to put out in plantations cannot he produced in less than eighteen 
months. YY hen once rooted they gjow Well and make good plants. We received a 
box ol these cuttings last October when only a few of I hem had roots, and in January 
they had rooted and were potted off singly in five inch pots. Next to seedlings 
collected in a very young state these are the best plants 1 have seen. 
9- in the Singapore Gardens 1 saw a number of young seedling plants that 
had been brought from Borneo, and if plants of this stamp are obtainable they 
should be purchased in large numbers for Malacca and Penang and forwarded in 
the boxes as they arrive to Nurseries as near as possible to the places in 
winch they are to be eventually planted. I also saw in the same place a 
number o) boxes pi stumps ot which I have no very high opinion, unless they are 
utilised lor piopagation in the manner 1 have already described in paragraph 8. I 
doubt whether these old stumps, from which one half the tap root has been cut in 
order to get them into boxes, will ever make satisfactory growth. 
C. CURTIS, 
As.sistaht Superintendent of Forests . 
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