Report ON THE GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENTAL FARM, CUREPIPE. 
Tea.—The cyclone of the 29th ultimo did scarcely any eo to the 
tea fields. The leaves only of the large trees reserved for seed were 
blown about. As for the trees from which leaf is plucked they "Wofferéd 
still less, being much smaller, a flush or two will be lost; that is to 
say, there E be no pieEDg for the next 10 days; but after that I 
expect so See € flushes, the wind having had the effect of a light 
pruning on Pt 
Of the young rogi w about two years old, the eme raised from 
cuttings suffered a little, and half a dozen plants w ere blown down ; 
this is owing to the plants having no tap-roots. It would not be 
advisable to plant tea by cuttin 
Buildings.—A ve of new lines were knocked down, and will cost 
Rs. 20 to put up a: 
Factory.—Part of the thatched roof was carried away, and it will be 
necessary to remove the whole of it and replace it by an iron roof; cost 
about Rs. 120. At present I have repaired the damage as well as I 
could with thatch, &c., and ds 866 äs carpenters can be procured at 
ve 
Tea Manufacture.—Since e 865 Ibs. ps a. been manufac- 
tured. Previous to that, there is in the large bin about 700 Ibs. more; 
T cannot find the accounts. 
—I am clearing about six acres of land, and have ager 
the boundary (the wire lines) ; beyond this the Inspector of Forest 
at Curepipe h has told me that I was not to touch. 
(Signed) A. J. Corson. 
_. Catepipe, 6th May 1892. 

CCLXXI.—POTATO DISEASE IN POONA. 
The NH RR eae has been received at Kew from the 
Secretary of r India, on the subject of a disease in potatoes 
that has fuissc in the Poona distriet, and in other localities in the 
copa Presidency. Itis uite distinet from the well-known 

olocasia antiquorum in Tisi (Journ. Linn. SU. vol xxiv., 
E «P: 45." “Tf,” he continues, * the sclerotia are formed in the substance 
Tw a haulms, the removal of these from the ground would be as 
_ Sulphate (an ingredient in the Wil known Bouillie Bordelaise) is 
likely to €— it injurious to plant life, and especially as in some 
Stee ue a tely undertaken in this country, there is an excess 
Copper sal left undecomposed in the ‘soil. The result see vary, 
