The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6
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Mr. Jenman reported:—"I regret to say that there are page 20 only two plants of the Pará rubber in the garden, one which I brought with me, and which is now a vigorous young tree 10 feet high, the other, the only one saved out of a case of 16 plants sent from Kew Gardens over two years ago, but which unfortunately on its arrival in Kingston was locked up in the Custom House for a fortnight, to the influence of which, after the voyage, all but the one succumbed. The atmospheric conditions of this district appear favourably adapted to the successful cultivation of the Para rubber."