The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . o is being conducted. Ceara rubber (Manihot Glaziovii) is growing with itsaccustomed vigour, A seedling of eight months isnearly 4 feet high. It seems quite at home in CentralAfrican climates, but it is not a first-class rubber, andinstances are on record where it was proved not worththe trouble of planting; still, it might be a mostsuitable sort here. A serious loss occurred last June in the burningdown of a large nursery-shed through native careless-ness, when a fine batch of the celebrated silk rub
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . o is being conducted. Ceara rubber (Manihot Glaziovii) is growing with itsaccustomed vigour, A seedling of eight months isnearly 4 feet high. It seems quite at home in CentralAfrican climates, but it is not a first-class rubber, andinstances are on record where it was proved not worththe trouble of planting; still, it might be a mostsuitable sort here. A serious loss occurred last June in the burningdown of a large nursery-shed through native careless-ness, when a fine batch of the celebrated silk rubber ofLagos (Funtumia elastica) was lost, in company withother valuable things. I feel certain Lagos silkrubber will prove a suitable culture here for planta-tions in the lake region. We have a large number of Landolphia seedlings,which were obtained from Sesse in 1900. Nothing ismore puzzling than the slowrate at which this commonnative plant grows under cultivation. It is quite clearit requires to be sown where it is intended the plantsare to remain. It resents transplanting, and some. FIG. 69.—WIDDRINfiTONIA WflYlfcl About three years old, growing in the EntebbeBotaDic Gardens, Uganda. that introduced sorts should do well. The LondonMarket Report, recently to hand, on a sample of Nyasaplantation Coffee, grown and prepared here, provesthat the country can produce Coffee of first-ratequality. Some of the books dealing with this countrycall the indigenous Coffee a form of Coffea arabica. Itis nothing of the kind. It is probably a distinct spe-cies, and certainly allied to the well marked large-leaved West Coast type?. It responds most readily tocultivation, and grows rapidly after the seedling stageis passed. A Congo species (Coffea robusta) bears astriking similarity to it. This latter grows splendidlyhere. Our plants are from seedlings given by plant has just flowered. I believe Coffea robustahas a considerable market in parts of Europe. Maragogipe Coffee, a South A
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