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collections some containing over two hundred different herbs and 
drugs. Mr. Machado carried off the first prize for these with a 
beautifully prepared series showing the specimens dried as for 
a herbarium, as well as dried as the drug, and put up in bottles. 
Fibres . — This class of produce was better shown and staged 
than on previous occasions, though there was nothing equal to the 
collection shown by Mr. Schirmer in the Kuala Lumpur show. 
There were twenty-two exhibits, Mr. Machado winning a first prize 
with a fine set of samples, very well shown. There is doubtless a 
future for fibre in the Malay Peninsula. Many grow extremely 
readily, and there is a constant demand for high class and even 
second grade fibres in the European markets. 
Cotton . — Some samples of this were decidedly good, but much 
was very poor. Mr. Machado’s Egyptian was very fine. A good 
deal of that shown by natives was ill-cleaned, and one or two 
tempting looking baskets were discovered to have a fine sample at 
the top with very inferior specimens below. 
Kapok was largely represented, and most of the samples good, 
some being very superior. 
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Cocoa pods . — Were much more largely represented this year 
than on previous occasions, and some samples were very fair and 
clean, mostly of the red varieties Sangue Toro, and Forastero. The 
green and yellow varieties do not seem popular. None of the pods 
were of very large size, and none were fully ripe, still signs of an 
increase in the cultivation of this product are very welcome. 
Dragon’s blood was well represented, and the winner of the 
first prize exhibited a complete series of specimens illustrating the 
history and manufacture of this product in the form of a living 
plant of the rattan Dannonorops propinqua which produces the drug, 
a portion of an adult stem with panicles and fruit, the little mat 
basket and tripod, with the cockleshells used in separating the 
resin from the fruit, a bottle of the powdered resin of first class 
quality and a cake of the pressed dragon’s blood as exported. All 
the samples shown this time seemed to be derived from D . propinqua 
though at previous exhibitions dragon’s blood of other species was 
shown. 
Coconuts. — Mr. Lawrence Brown, the Government Inspector 
of Coconut Trees in the Malay States, acted as judge of coconuts 
as well as other agricultural produce, and writes : “ As at the two 
previous shows there were a great many fine exhibits of coconuts 
and all the classes were not only well filled but well represented. 
The best collection of varieties of coconuts consisting of no less 
than thirty-one kinds was that of Hadji Mohamed Yassin of 
S’tiawan and received the first prize, and Mr. Prior of Golden Hope 
Estate, Klatig, easily obtained the second prize with an excellent 
exhibit of twenty-two varieties, while another collection of fourteen 
varieties staged by Latip bin Eusope of Malacca carried the third 
prize. 
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