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AN ECONOMIC TOTTR 
in MALACCA and to 
PEBAHG. February 9th*, 1914. Left Singapore for 
Malacca by the SS. Kaka, 
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February 10th. The captain of the Kaka says that 
for every 800 durian fruits that is season he picks up 
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r at Malacca, he picks up 3000 at Muar; which shows how much 
more this fruit,tree is grown in Muar than in Malacca.. 
Malacca is dry and dusty; the rice is "being cut. 
Dio scores, a, lata,- Tibi t me rah,- about 14 feet ling is on 
, sale in the shops of the - town, Chinese shops in all 
xases, Pachyrrhizms is freely offered, but Moca si a macro- 
rrijiza sparingly. Chinese cabbage tops were being brought 
into the town for sale as k fresh vegetable. Brinjals 
were freely on sale, and lettuces* were .on sale also. 
And so also Parkia pods ; 
There is a Chinese herbalist who of fere a number 
of fresh herbs including Hydrocotyle asiatica, and Eclipta 
alba* 
In the evening I went to Tanjong Kling, where the 
coconuts are , not adequately cared for , and where rhinocer¬ 
os beetle larvae were found in logs in damp positions: 
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but the weather is apparently too dry for these pests 
to mature in logs in dry ppsitions* 
Vi n c a rosea, both red and white , is common ; besides it 
very little is in flower. 
Pand.anus is consideralbly cultivated near fanjong 
Kling; and Kipa is rather common ahd evident!^ much used. 
Mango trees in Malacca afe coining into flower but ar 
are not common. Erythrina is flowering near the Stadthaus, 
with fewer leaves on it than it carries in Singapore, but 
at tl e same time , by no means bare. Grammatophy 11 um which 
is now well in' flower in Singapore is not flowering in 
Malacca. 
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A. -'V 
