OtTLTIVATION IN CEYLON. 



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mies of the plant, and more especially the ravages of leaf dis- 

 ease have seriously affected the production, so that the average 

 export for the past eight years was little over half of what Mr. 

 Simmonds stated should result. 



The following gives the prices of native Ceylon coffee known 

 as good ordinary in the London market : 



End of 1873 118s. per owt. 



" 1874 82a. " 



" 1875 92s. " 



End of 1876 89s. per cwt. 



" 1877 85s. " 



" 1878 67s. " 



The following shows the range of prices as to quality : 



1879. 



Native Bold 75s. to 80s. per cwt. 



Good & fine ordlu'y . 70s. to 74s. " 

 Small and ordinary . 62s. to 69s. " 



1880. 



Native bold 64s. to 66s. per cwt 



Good & fine ordin'y . 60s. to 61s. " 

 Small and ordinary .50s. to 59s. 6d. " 



The comparative prices of Plantation Ceylon on January 1, 

 1880 and 1881, in London, together with the prices of West 

 India and Central American coffee, were, per hundredweight, 

 in bond (duty, l^d. per pound and one-fourth per cent.), as 

 follows : 



1880. 



1881. 



Ceylon, Native, good and fine, 



Small to frood ordinary 



Plantation, fine 



Fine middling. 



Good middling 



Low and middling 



Triage and inferior 



Jamaica, finest 



Middling to good 



Inferior and triage 



Costa Rica, middling to fine. , 



Low to f. f . ordinary 



Guatemala, good to fine 



Ordinary to middling 



8. d. 



61 0@ 



50 0@ 



98 0® 



87 0@ 



81 0(^ 



60 0@ 



50 0@ 



93 0@ 



80 0@ 



50 0® 



70 0® 



52 0® 

 76 0® 



53 0® 



66 



60 



110 



95 



86 



80 



58 



105 



90 



74 



86 



65 



84 



73 



s. d. 



71 



60 



112 



107 



103 



81 



70 



102 



92 



60 

 85 



61 

 90 

 60 



1. a. 



@ 80 



® 70 



@120 



@110 



©108 



@102 



@ 80 



@110 



©100 



@ 88 



©100 



© 82 



© 97 



® 84 



The imports of Ceylon coffee into the United Kingdom were 

 as follows : 



