At the Botanic Gardens seeds received from Singapore have 
$fqti inated at the rate of 703 per thousand sown/while of those recti. 
froT Perak in round figures only 19 per thousand Kaye germinated. 
(4) 334.000 seeds of the Perak consignments were supplied to Plantat- 
•ions.Of these 10,086 germinated equivalent in round figures to 33 per 
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thousand sown. 
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(5) The Singapore consignments resulted in 703 plants per thousand 
whilst the Perak consignments produced only 36.4 per thousand.The 
shipments froi Singapore can be regarded as of fairly satisfactory 
quality.whilst the conditions of those from Perak hav^ been most unsat- 
-isfactfcry. 
(6) The instructions forwarded by you to both places were identical. 
In Singapore they have been followed with fair results;in Perak they te 
have been varied with deplorable effect.The Singapore seeds were packed 
average rate cf 600 box a. co erdanve W*t£> -h.- 
whilst the boxes from Perak contained an average of 831 seeds each,the 
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seeds being so closely packed as almost to A touch one another. 
The boxes from Singapore w®ee,ds laid down in the instructions! 
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tightly closed,whilst those froi Perak were not only tightly closed^but 
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were Iermetically soldered down.Both supplies were packed in charred 
rice,the burning in the Perak supplies as a rule being more complete 
than in those froir. Singapore.The percentage o£ moisture in the Char, 
whan received here varied from S to9$,these variations apparently * 
exercising but little,if any,influence on the rates of germination. 
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(?) The contents of the packages from Perak when opened were .found 
to'be slightly warm and evolved a strong and penetrating odour.The char, 
froi’. some of the packages was examined and in it was found hydrocyanic 
acid in minute amount,fori aldehyde in traces,formic acid in some ouantmfc 
and acetic acid in abundance,The Perak 3eeds were in fact more or less 
pickled in the products of their decompositions.lt was noticeable that 
the proportion of hydrocyanic acid in the vape f* given off by the Pcra^i 
