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has developed rather more interest in the subject 
during the past few years, with the result that 
many are now to a certain extent independent of 
the market supply. Managers of rubber estates, as 
a general rule, have opportunities of making and 
maintaining a vegetable garden, but more advantage 
might easily be taken of these opportunities. It is 
unlikely that the European will ever grow sufficient 
to contribute to the market, but it is not improbable 
that he will finance the Chinaman to "an extent which 
will enable him to use more modern types of 
implements and will induce him to grow more of 
those vegetables for which there is a European 
demand. The capitalist of the country looks mostly 
to Rubber and Coconuts as an investment and has 
probably never considered seriously the possibilities 
of vegetable culture. Around the large centres there 
is undoubtedly room for progress in this direction; 
and, considering the ‘ cost of importing vegetables 
from other countries, it would appear to be a profit- 
able investment. 
Tropical vegetables are well represented and of 
good quality but could without doubt be improved 
by selection. European vegetables such as potatoes, 
carrots, beet, etc. are almost entirely imported ; they 
cannot be grown successfully on the low lands but 
there is ample scope for their cultivation on the 
hills, where they have bsen proved to do well. At 
the Government Gardens, Maxwell's Hill, Taiping, 
Perak, such vegetables have been grown satisfac- 
torily for years ; and, as other hill stations are 
developed, gardens of a similar nature will un- 
doubtedly be established. In India and Ceylon 
vegetables are extensively cultivated in the hill- 
country, and the towns on the plains derive a fair 
