. India rubber world. alent, devoted enthusiasm and deep scientific knowledgehave been given to the work of making these wonderful gar-dens. The same patient and skilful effort would have wroughtwonders in Greenland, but under a tropic sun the result hasbeen magnificent beyond description. The Mohammedans believe that the Garden of Eden w:aslocated in Ceylon, and there is no doubt that the gardens ofPeradeniya have made a finer representation of that ideal spotthan imagination could ever depict. The beauties, the marvelsof the vegetable world, the delightful fruit, the healing herb, allare the
. India rubber world. alent, devoted enthusiasm and deep scientific knowledgehave been given to the work of making these wonderful gar-dens. The same patient and skilful effort would have wroughtwonders in Greenland, but under a tropic sun the result hasbeen magnificent beyond description. The Mohammedans believe that the Garden of Eden w:aslocated in Ceylon, and there is no doubt that the gardens ofPeradeniya have made a finer representation of that ideal spotthan imagination could ever depict. The beauties, the marvelsof the vegetable world, the delightful fruit, the healing herb, allare there—and there is no angel with flatning sword to turnthe visitor away. Avenues of lofty palms, wonderful lianas,giant bainboos and all those miracles of the vegetable worldwhich loom so large in travelers tales are here assembled forthe visitors delight. There are flowers of marvelous beautyand. as in the Garden of old, every tree that is pleasant to thesight and good for food. There, too, is the tree of the fruit of. 592 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [August 1, 1914. which if man should cat he would surely die. It is the upas-tree of Java. This hcwildcring assemblage of beauty and marvel would welljustify its existence if it served no further purpose than theinformation and delight of tlie visitor, liut for the benefit ofthe grouchy utilitarian it may be said that tliey Iiavc added manymillions (now we have him interested!) to tlic wealtii of theworld and there is scarce a household in civilized lands to whichtheir benelits have not penetrated. Tea was imported into Ceylcmfor a thousand years. No doubt small, unsuccessful and for-gotten attempts at its culture were made, but not until Pera-deniya, by scientific and careful experiment, had shown the the tea plant more than a curiosity. In 1875 a little lessthan three hundred pounds were exported. Now the produc-tion is two hundred million, twice the amount consumed in thewhole Lhiited States. How much this means to the plante
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