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restriction of the Government gardens, and (2) 
establishment of an experimental station. With 
regard to the first point, Mr. Massink stated that 
he had failed to discover any arguments against 
it, and he quoted figures showing the harm done 
to private enterprise by the Government gardens, 
which could throw yearly 3,600,000 half-kilograms 
of bark or 252,000 half-kilograms of sulphate of 
quinine on the market. The second point in the 
petition of the Nederland branch, said Mr. 
Massink, had also been left undealt with by the 
President-Director ; and the request was one of 
even greater importance to the planters, in view of 
the diseases to which it was now known the 
cinchona trees were liable. He then made a com- 
parison between the Government Cinchona Enterprise 
and the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, showing 
that while the former brought into tha Government 
treasury a hundred thousand guilders net eaoh 
year it did absolutely nothing for the benefit of 
the planters, but, on the contrary benefited at their 
expense ; while the latter, though a source of loss 
to the Government, had been of the greatest help 
in many ways to the planting industry, which was 
the mainstay of Java : several instances being given. 
The President here remarked that he could not 
admit that the Director of the Cinchona Enterprise 
was not fully aware of the danger hanging over 
the cinchona market in consequence of the great 
outturn of the rich Government bark : to which 
Mr. Massink replied by reiterating that the Director 
had beat about the bush and shirked the main 
question. Another member, Mr. Burger, however, 
Baid that in his opinion the Director either was 
not or would not be aware of the danger referred 
to ; and the President confessed that the large 
production of the Government gardens was undonbt- 
edly a cause of injury to private planters, who were 
already so severely handicapped. A somewhat 
heated debate followed, in which an honorary 
member, Mr. van Vleuten, Director of the Inland 
Administration, defended the Director of the Go- 
vernment Cinchona Enterprise, the management of 
which he compared with that of private estates, 
to the disparagement of the latter. Messrs. Massink 
and Burger replied to his criticisms, and the subject 
seems then to have dropped without any resolution 
being come to. It is, however, significant, that a 
subsequent minute runs: — "Beceived with thanks 
from the Director of the Government Cinchona 
Enterprise, in January 1889, trrs Annual Beport 
on the enterprise in question for 1887," the itali- 
cized word and figures being printed in the original 
in black type. 
BARK AND DRUG TRA.DE REPORT. 
London, 2nd May 1889. 
Annatto. — Some good bright red seeds from South 
America (shipped here via Hamburg) were offered 
today, and sold at 2d per lb. Dry Brazilian roll annatto 
was bought iu at Is per lb. Cayenne annatto is held 
at Is to Is 2d per lb in Liverpool. 
Cardamoms. — Very heavy quantities were bought to 
auction this week, the total number of packages offered 
exceeding 400. Some of the owners, especially those 
holding Indian oardamoms, wpre limited above the 
present market value*, ami wi ihdrew the whole of their 
supply, but others olf ered freely, and of the 243 pack- 
ages reached today, about 160 were sold at an irre^uUr 
dec ine of from 2d to 5 el per lb, medium qualities being 
comparatively dearest. The following prices were paid: — 
Ceylon Malabar, fair round brownish mixed, rather 
light Is 8d to Is lOd ; smaller but paler Is 6d to Is 
S<l ; small pale round Is 6d ; ordinary l>rown small to 
medium spscky Is to Is Id ; split sheila and clippings 
6d per lb. Mysore, fine pale medium to bold loug.»nd 
round mixed 2s 9d to 2s lid ; fair medium long brown- 
ish, mixed Is lOd ; small pale round Is 9d ; small to 
me lium long aud round pale heavy Is 7el to Is 8d ; 
small to medium fair pale Is 31 to Is 5d ; small to 
medium brown Is Id ; good email long, very pale 
bleached Is ; small pale 9o' to lOJd ; ordinary brown and 
specky 8d per lb. True Malabar, even, pale medium 
round Is lid ; very small to medium round Is to Is 7d. 
Wild Ceylon, fair to fine Is 3.1 to Is 7d. Seed Is 3d 
to Is 4d per lb. The shipments from Ceylon have 
fallen off lately. They now total up as follows for 
the periods between October let and April 4th • 
1888-89, 185,016 lb; 1887-88, 212,066 lb ; 1886-87, 
204,983 lb. 
Cinchona. — At today's auctions two packages South 
American red bark of dull colour were sold at the very 
high price of 8s per lb for fair to heavy broken quill 
aud flat, and 2s for ordinary thin mixed broken quill. 
Guiyaquil long brown quill, partly damaged brought 
6d to 9d per lb. For Huanoco brown quill lid was 
refused. For good bright broken Lima quill 2JJ per 
lb was refused one lot ; flat yellow Calisaya sold 
at Is 8d per lb, a large quantity was bought in. Ma- 
racaibo firmly held for full rates. A parcel imported 
via Hamburg sold at 7d to 7gd for the damages, but 8d 
was refused for sound lots. At present about 2,400 
paokages (about one-half nf British Indian growth) are 
advertised for sale next Tuesday. The exports of cin- 
chona bark from Java in the eight months between 
July 1st and February 28th have beeu as follows : — 
1888-9 1887-8 1886-7 1885-6 
Amst. lb. Amst. lb. Amst. lb. Amst.lb. 
Private plant. 2,444,870 2,001,171 1,125,310 677,627 
Government plant. 529,110 490,653 480,777 330,242 
Total 2,973,980 2,491,824 1,606,037 1,007,869 
Cloves have been in speculative reouest since last 
W' ek, and a considerable advance has been made ; 
but at yesterday's auctions the article was again at 
£d lower, at 7Jd to 7|-d for fair to good, and 8JJ for 
fine Zanzibar. 
Coca Leaves. — Tomorrow a few bales of fine quality 
will be offered, including leaves grown in Ceylon and 
in Java. 
Okoton-seed. — Only 10 bags brown mixed Ceylon 
seed were shown today, and sold at the low price of 
lis per cwt. 
Oil (Essential). — 'Some cinnamon " bark" oil sold 
very cheaply at ljd per oz., but for a good oil of 
cinnamon Is 3d per oz. is wanted. The exports of 
cinnamon bark and leaf oil from Ceylon are con- 
siderably less this season than they have been for 
several years, the figures being between October 1st 
and April 4th; 1888-89 26,187 oz. ; 1887-88 46,292 oz. ; 
1886-87, 43,447 oz. Citronella oil is dull at f d to Id 
per oz. for native brands. The following figures refer 
to the shipmeuts of citronella oil from Ceylon during 
the periods between October 1st and April 4th ; 
1888-89, 7,660,660 oz. ; 18S7-88, 4,870,162 oz. ; 1886-87, 
3,951,264 oz. 
Patchodly Leaves. — A second bale of West Indian 
leaves arrived this week. Jn appearance this variety 
shows a very fine green leaf of very pronounced aroma. 
At the auctions brown and stalky leaves imported via 
Singapore were offered at 4jd per oz. 
Quinine lower. There has been very little doing 
since our last report but during the latter part of 
this week German in bulk has declined to Is Id and 
Is Ofd per oz., at both of which figures business is 
said to have been done. 
THE AMSTERDAM CINOHON \ AUCTIONS. 
Amsterdam, May 2nd. — A! 'oct y s cinchona auctio n s 
2,339 packages, neprly all Java bark, were offer e d 
for sale. Of this qm.nisy, 1,964 packases were dis- 
posed of at an average unit price of 8 to 9 cents pur 
J kilo. (=l|dto 1 9-16d per lb.) Manufacturers' 
bark sold at 11 fo 82 oents per § kilo. (= 2d to Is 
2id per lb.) for quill, broken quill, und chips, and 13 
to 19 cents (= 2jd to 3id<) for root. Druggists' barks, 
in long to broken quill aud branch, sold at 6 to 64 
cents (= Id to lid per lb.), and root bark at 6 to 
59 cents (= Id to 10id per lb.) The principal 
