March i, 1887.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURlfST. 



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Our imports for the past seven years were thus made 



up— 



Calisaya 



Soft Columbian "| 



New Gran'idian and > 



Hard^ttayo ... J 



Oarthagena 



Oeylonf and East 



1886. 1885. 1884. 1883. 1882. 



4,000 2,600 2,600 2,770 6 310 



6,500 2,690 16,960 49,830* 84,150 



nil nil 1,510 1,180 .5,470 



Indiaa 



Oalisaya ... 

 Soft Tolombian... 

 New Granadian and 

 Hard Pitayo ... 



59,700 50,410 37,300 31,330 21,630 

 1881. 1880. 

 ... 7,020 6,580 serons and cases 



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87,200 44,500 



and bales. 



* These totals for 1885, 1884, 1883. 18S3 and 1881 also 

 include Cuprea, the imports of which were, in 1885, 

 about 440 packaees against in 1834 about 11,600 pack- 

 ages against in 1883 about 40,000 packages againg^ in 

 1882, about 67,000 packages, and in 1881. about 60,000 

 packages. 



Oarthagena 5,750 6.480 „ „ 



CeyloD* & East Indian... 15,400 20,690 packages. 



The receipts in Amprica have become very unim- 

 portant. In the following table the quantities for 

 1885-^6 are without rejections, i.e., bark worthle.ss f or 

 the manufacture of Sulphate "f Quinine. 



1886. 1885. 1884. 1883. 1882. 1881. 

 Packages... 2,700 3,900 8,150 11,250 28,000 81,400 

 1880. 1879. 1878. 1877. 1876. 1875 

 Packages 32,800 46,700 41,000 23,400 32,400 35,150 

 Stocks at the end of the year without rejections 

 1886. 1885. 1884. 1883. 

 Packages ... 930 1,500 2,600 6,200 



Imports into France continue to be very small; they 

 were, last year, of a'l sorts. 

 About pkgs. 

 2 272 

 in 1885... 2!417 

 1884... 9 270 

 1883... 39,660 



!Oali»ava,& ) Columbian, 

 about pkg<. V New Grana- 



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28.977*; dian, 

 16.650 „ 



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7.960 „ 



4 829 



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* Of tht^se iiuports about 12.0h0 were Onprea. 

 The stocks in France on the 31tt December were as 

 follows : 



1886. 1885. 1884. 1883. 1882. 18SI. 1830 

 pkgs. pkifs. pkg'«. pk?s. pkis. pk^s. pksrs 

 7,403 8,567 11,200 18,280 15,780 8,010 8,400 

 Your obedient servants, Lewts & Peat, 



Brokers. 



TEA IN LONDON. 



(Special teharam for the '^Observer " ) 



This morning we received the following details 

 in a telegram which was despatched from London 

 yesterday at 3-35 p.m. : — 



The quantity of Ceylon tea offered during the 

 week was 2,741 packages, of which 2,199 sold at 

 an average of thirteen pence. The tone of the 

 market is duller. 



To the above we add the following, for whioh 

 we are indebted to a leading merchant : — 



" I regret to say a telegram from London 

 reports the tea market not so good ; that 

 quality is falling off, and that prices are down 

 lid a lb. 



" Probably teas are getting home from bushes 

 pruned towards the end of last year." 



Our correspondent may possibly be correct as to 

 the cause of the falling off, but mere season, apart 

 from pruning it would seem to affect the quality 

 of tea, as was shewn in the quotations made by 

 Mr. Cochran in his paper on Coca leaves and 

 their alkaloids. 



On turning to the paper referred to by Mr 

 Cochran, we find that it is stated in the Journal 

 of the Chemical Society, with reference to a paper 

 on the Composition of Tea-leaves, by 0. Kellner 

 {LanduK Versuchs-Stat., 1886, 370—380). "—The 

 chief interest in this research lies in the fact that 

 it is almost the only case in which an evergreen 

 plant has been systematically examined throughout 

 the year." 



Then come the purely technical details of the 

 drying and chemical treatment so as to obtain the 

 proportions of theine, tannic acid, &q. We quote 

 the conclusion of the paragraph : — 



"The fluctuation in the percentage of water is 

 less than that observed in leaves of deciduous trees; 

 the percentage of ash lies betweeH that found in the 

 needles of pines and in ordinary leaves. It will be 



* The imports from Ceylon in 1886 as in 1885 and 

 1884 contain many very large pacljages. 



