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Cl ora , The Mount, 
therhead, Surrey 
England 
7th Horemher,1953 
Ridley claims that he planted all the three 
hamhoos in your photo,* which is prohatle. I did not. 
Is not the near one of the three Schizostachyum hrachy- 
cladum ? Ritiley at first said that he got it from Siam, 
hSft then corrected himself and said that he got it from 
Java. I doubt if he quite knows. 
Bendrocalamus Ha iltonii is thought to be in cultivation 
in Java, hut has not been recorded for the "iJtalay "^eninsula , 
D.asper is* recoded for the neighbourhood af all the three 
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Settlements, Gantley brought D, glgaenteuB into the G'ardens in 
j886o 3D, strictus seems to Have been planted in the low ground 
at'Government House. 
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I have been * working at the Imperial Institute and 
usmng Summers Improvement of the Yield of Hevea brasiliensis 
I find a somewhat unimformed statement there about the 
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Singapore Gardens tre’es. He says thatlwhen you took over 
(implying that you were not there with me) you found one 
tree 'left and that it was soon after cut Vdown on account of 
*root disease, I suppose he refers to tree 25. Did the 
PaW.D. sweep away every other tree and ultimately it ? 
Next you have a bud graft of that tree on lawn A, 
Can you make no use of ij for selection work ? If you can 
do nothing else you can give bud wood from it to those who 
can use it. 
It was good of you to wTite to me about the 
Dictionary, Yours is the only information that I have. 
My own opinion is that 1000 copies is just too few. This 
is how I work it out, TLie Asiatic Society has about 500 
memiE rs and we may take that as about the number of well- 
instructed men,.who \mll have the wish for the book. 
Then beyond there should be 20^ planters who could 
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