Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from India Rubber and Gutta Percha: Being a Compilation of All the Available Information Respecting the Trees Yielding These Articles of Commerce and Their Cultivation
To meet the request frequently sent to us for information in a pamphlet or book form respecting trees yielding India-rubber, their cultivation, uses, and value in Commerce, we have collected and printed the following pages. It is not impossible at this stage of the enterprise in Ceylon to do much by way of comparing the statements of the different writers with local experience. As a preliminary to the Ceylon Rubber Planters' Manual of the future, we have republished what is said about India-rubber by every authority or compiler within our reach; and, although a great deal of the matter maybe found repeated more than once, we have thought it best in the first instance to give the extracts verbatim, so that the amount of authority attaching to each statement and opinion may be fully and readily seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
