Britiob Outana. 
IN REPLYING QUOTE DATE 
HRItBOF AND no4504/4340 
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Science anb Hgricultuve department, 
Georgetown 9 Denierara, 
25rd April, 1914 1Q1 
Sir, 
I have the honour to acknowledge the 
receipt of your letters of February 5th, 17th, 18th 
and 24th covering the supply of Para •rubber seeds 
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to this Colony. 
In our standing order, Ho. 6167 of 11th March, 
1911, we were careful t,o guard ourselves against the 
receipt of large numbers of seeds during the earlier 
months of the year. We wrote as follows:- 
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11 It is desired that the seeds, which should 
"be packed in the usual manner, should be shipped to 
"this Colony in two lots the first, the smaller, 
"leaving in the Spring, and the second in the autumn 
"of each year . " 
We have received from you during the past 
fortnight no less than 163,000 seeds. We shall, 
owing to meteorological conditions here, lose a large 
proportion of the plants we may raise from them 
during the heavy rainy season of May to September and 
the intensely dry season of September to November. 
I asked the Government of British Guiana in 
February last to cancel the greater part - 120,000 - 
of the seeds ordered for 1914-1915. Unfortunately 
you sent in February 111,600 of them in place of, 
as in former years, not sending them until September 
The Director of Agriculture, 
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Botanic Gardens, Singapore 
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