SOIL AND CLIMATE. 



be seen anywhere for the rich green carpet of glossy 

 foliage that covers it ; but this is all. The crop 

 never comes, or comes very thinly, and will not 

 ripen. This is only natural when we remember 

 that we are here growing a tropical plant under 

 the atmospheric conditions of northern countries. 



The golden rule applies to India as well as all 

 other countries, that a happy mean must be hit 

 temperature about 60 or 80 Fahrenheit, and rain- 

 fall 80 inches per year. 



Annexed is four years' rainfall of a central 

 district of Ceylon : 



Trinidad in the West Indies has only 65 inches 

 in the year; Upper Rajawalla in Dumbara (Ceylon) 

 shows a yearly average of 55.78 inches ; Kurune- 



