years before it is necessary to plant again. To obtain the oil from 
tin- ltimhs b\ .list ilation a small plant is required, - 
— boiler costing v.- 1 .")!'. and ;l tank and condenser with pipe 
"— costing £85. A round tank, 16 feet in diameter, 
ufficiently large to treat four crops a year off 200 acres, 
if worked day and night. 
uld not recommend 
Cultivation of Lemon Grass in the Malay Peninsula -A second 
l J , ; ^( ■ , ■ "I"" tin- ouhivation of a scented oil--rass. in the Time* of 
Malaya, is here reprinted from the A ,/rirult. n,iU.-i; ti , Strait* a,rl 
Federated Malay States, vol. v. (given as viii. », pp. 282, 283. 
The most remarkable feature in this reference to Lemon Grass 
cultivation is the great difference of view as to the yield e^pecte.l 
ated from Citronella Grass. The 
five four crops a year, the former 
only two. let the produce of these four crops of Citronella Grass 
es is expected to realize only £46 16*. as against 
W. per acre from the two crops of Lemon Grass. The 
-■m-ouelh. Grass is only advocated as a catch-crop, 
oil even on this assumption the first estimate seems low; the 
second is probably too high. The note is as follows :— 
T ,!H Pr0dUC i t l ?\ T mch there is at P re8ent a S°° d demand in the 
London market, late quotations being from 8jr/. to S.',,/., is the oil 
-' ^i steadily increased 
id is likely to rise 
; well-drained Bandy soil, but has 
3 provide 
ZShZSZT* -terloggingr ^S^hesTU^ 
dav inJl k h + °T Ver ' the mo8t suitabl e soil is an arenaceous 
&^Ts^ ^ Which P— ts distinct alternations 
■ " T rt e iJ?n P thI i i 1 ii Und ^. ° rdinary ^di^ns, be ready for 
On Tor,^ l d W6athe . r ° f the third y ear f ™ m P lant W " 
ittle de?av S P nn7-S e g 5T tt is committed to the still with as 
at least two ^irons C an Z T V * T f ^ In P^tation-grown grass 
lating "on an avera^ L har T ested in the season, so that, caleu- 
diam'eteT) f^SToTtne Wh* ^ ^ ( ° f "V^f 
counted upon to attain t, If T clumps wtuch ma ^ safel ? be 
harvest, dWl and tasp^hV^V'"" -,''' ^ " '''■ '" ' "^ """'• 
acre would be obta nable f r ' % , to mar , kt ''' " I"" 111 "' -'"" ' ,er 
o£ the third y^tt^Z^Z'^ !,fter th " CO ' a Weath6r 
