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Title: The rubber tree book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Maclaren, W. F. de Bois
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Publisher: London : Maclaren & sons
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
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in the nature or condition of the soil toaccount for this, but as yet the reason is unknown. It has been reported that, on one estate in the Kelani Valley,Ceylon, the burrs fell out after the trees were well manured.It would be very interesting to leam whether any other plantershad a similar experience. Fasciation.—This is rather an abnormal form of growththan an actual disease. Fasciation is the growing together ofa series of stems, or stems and leaves, to form a broad, irregularstructure. The cause of fasciation is little understood. Fasciation isnot, like the growths of gall-nuts, caused by insects. It maypossibly arise from some injury received by the seed. In thecase of trees which bear branches with these irregular growthsthe tendency seems persistent. Even when all such branchesare cut off, the irregular structures appear again. Like the black sheep that is the constant grief of the parents of anotherwise respectable family, this is one of the things no fellowcan understand.
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o CHAPTER XXXVI PESTvS TyTT^HlTE ANTS (Termes Grstroi).—The common ants^^ belong to the same order of insects as bees and wasps,but the termites, or white ants, are in no way connected withthat order. The white ants belong to the same family of insectsas the dragon-fly. In a colony or nest of white ants there is aqueen who is the parent of her subjects. The subjects are oftwo classes—soldiers and workers. White ants are generally the most troublesome pest againstwhich planters have to contend. Naturally, white ants aremost troublesome on estates in the close vicinity of jungle, orin cases where there is a good deal of decaying timber lying onthe soil. On estates which have been formerly under lalangthey are not nearly so much in evidence. If white ants con-fined themselves to the destruction of decaying timber theymight be regarded with complacence, but, unfortunately, thisis not the case. Even where there is an abundance of decayingwood they sometimes seem to like a change of die

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