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a.s Crown Rust of Oats, Yellow Rust of Barley, Black-Leg of 
Potato and Stem-Rot of Tomato, which compare with the Bnown 
Root, Red Root, Brown Bast, Mildew and so on of the the Rubber 
tree* 
If we can get on with this compilation of popular 
names, however slowly, in Malaya the next generation of 
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botanists, agriculturists, foresters, planters and horticulturists 
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will be spared an immense amount of book-work and uncertainty, 
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because students will issue from schools and colleges al¬ 
ready equipped with the correct use of popular names and 
will not have to struggle with the problems which their 
predecessors met at every turn. 
