Growing Rubber Trees

From time to time articles are print ■ ed in the daily and other press discoursing upon the advantage to be gained in the cultivation of india rubber, One advantage would be in the respect that the rubber tree does not grow in orchards er groves, but generally isolated, sometimes not more than four or five being within the distance of a mile. It is urged that if they could be cultivated ín groups the labor could be more advantageously handled. Rubber growing requires a hot, moist climate, and the trees cannot be grown elsewhere. The annual rainfall on the Amazon is about 140 inches against one-quarter of that amount in the United States. It rains, as a rule, every day. The temperature seldom falls below 75, its usual heighfc taing about 90. It is the ideal climate Tor growing rubber, which is so plenty that hardly any set of capitalists would undertake to plant trees and watch them 10 vears bef ore thev receive the first fruits of their enterprise. -