THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [February r, 1896. 
To the Editor. 
TEA PLUCKING-A QUEEY? 
Dear Sir, — I shall be much obliged if you, or 
Berne of your readers, will tell me — What is gene- 
rally understood by " plucking once in eight days." 
For instanoe, if a planter who says he plucks 
"once in eight days " commences a round on 
Monday, January 1st, when would he commence the 
next round ?— Yours faithfully, INQUIRER. 
[On Tuesday, January, 9th, surely ? — Ed.] 
THE GAME PRESERVATION MOVEMENT. 
Jan. 22nd. 
Dear Sir, — I am glad to see that the Matale 
Association is not going to be allowed to carry 
on the Game Preservation movement singlehanded, 
and I trust that Mr. Armitage's call will in due 
time receive a hearty response. 
I see that Mr. Armitige fixes the 1st February 
for a meeting of any who may be inolined to 
support the movement. I recognize with him the 
necessity for immediate action. I think however it 
would be well to postpone any general movement 
until the result of the Commission which His Ex- 
cellency proposes to appoint has been made 
known. It will be acknowledged that no unoffi- 
cial action could exercise any control over the 
agencips which are the cause of game extermination. 
This being the case, it would surely be advisable 
to await the results of the official Commission. 
We have been given to understand that the matter 
is to come before the Legislative Council at no 
very distant date, and it is quite possible that 
the acMon hereafter to be taken by the Govern- 
ment Commission might stultify the action of the 
proposed unofficial movement : we should in fact 
have to work in the dark, not knowing how far 
the Government would support our action. I would 
suggest, therefore, that no meeting be held until 
we have been made fully acquainted with the 
proposals of the Commission. I would point out 
en passant that one of the reasons adduced for 
forming a Game Preservation Society does not exist. 
There is a close season, a very well chosen one; 
we do not require a new one, but the enforcement 
of the existing one ; but apart from this there are 
excellent reasons for the formation of a Society such 
as is proposed. 
What I desire to point out is that we cannot 
move in such a matter without official sanction. 
The first shipment of rabbits might be " stuck up " 
by the Collector of Customs. The only satisfaction 
the members of the Society oould obtain would 
be perhaps the permission to course the cargo 
(costing a guinea a head) with fox-terriers on Galle 
Face !— Yours faithfully, 
E. GORDON REEVES. 
" GREEN " TEAS AS MADE BY MR. 
DEANB. 
Kintyre, Maskeliya, Jan. 24th. 
Dear Fir,— With reference to Mr. F. F. Street's 
tpontaneous and therefore all the more appreciated 
report on my green teas, I can only say that 
in due course I shall be glad to show any one 
the system of manufacture, I am awaiting the 
result of my first large break beforo publishing 
Mr. Street's reports, and also wish to secure my 
patent for a certain necessary machine. Samples 
of my break went forward by the S. 8. " Rohilla " 
to London, and the break itself of pome 2,500 lb. 
is about to follow. Should the introduction of this 
class of tea prove of service in opening a re- 
munerative trade with America ; no little thanks 
will be due to Mr. Street who has had I fear 
considerable trouble in reporting on various green tea 
samples for me for quite a year, and encouraging 
me to continue my experiments, which at length 
appear likely to be successful. Should this be 
the case there will be no longer the fear of insufficient 
withering accommodation hindering work as by my 
process the leaf becomes made tea within three 
hours of its entering the faotory. — Yours faithfully, 
H. D. DKANE. 
CEYLON TEA IN ~NEW~ZEALAND. 
Sir, — The enclosed letter from Mr. J. V. Owen will, 
I am sure, be read with pleasure by all interested in 
our tea industry and its representation at the Duue- 
din and South Seas Exhibition. It shows how much 
we are indebted to our old friend Mr. Watson for 
the interest and trouble he has taken in represent- 
ing us. I have just written and Bent him our very 
cordial thanks. 
L. H. KELLY, Chairman, 
Ceylon Planters' Association. 
Castlereagh, 20th January 1890. 
Enclosure, 
Dunedin, New Zealand, December 9th, 1889. 
My dear Kelly, — I have been intending to wri'e to 
you some time past, but until now 1 nave scarcely 
had any leisure time, having been so entirely occu- 
pied in doing the sights in this lovely oountry, and, 
last but not least, in doing the Dun -din and South 
Seas Exhibition, i very much wish I had been able to 
come here before the opening of the Exhibition, as 
then, perhaps, I might have been of some use to Mr. 
Watson in his arrangement of the Ceylon Kiosk. How- 
ever, my intervention would have been superfluous, as 
he has so admirably and efficiently carried out the 
wishes of the Ceylon Planters' Association, and indeed 
more than fulfilled the very onerous duties which he 
had so kindly undertaken for us. To give you and 
others in Ceylon a better idea, however, of the Kiosk 
than any written description could convey, I took two 
photographs of it, aud had some prints taken from 
them, which Mr. Wat ; on will forward to Messrs. 
Ferguson* and yourself. Ti e space was natural y very 
restricted in aid about the Kiosk, so that a more 
comprehensive photograph could hardly have been 
taken. In the centre you will notice s trophy com- 
posed d tea samples, in small buses, amongst which 
are to be found Vellai Oya, Ihebercon, Timmagong, 
Kintyre, &c, &c. teas, whi st here and there arc p aced 
photographs descriptive of the various prccesses m tea 
planting and manuficture ; below is a model cf a 
Sinhalese hut, a ehekko, and a cart and bullocks; th-3 
whole surmounted bv colored grass Kalutara toxe<; 
to the right and left, in front, are t e Kandy Art 
Association exhibits, which by the way are extremely 
highly priced and I fear will not sell while around 
the central trophy are placed the tables for tea. The 
Kio-k itself is very nicely finished and hung with 
yi How curtains, aid with the pilasters of blue, yell >w, 
and gilt, . and the extremely near, littering descriptive 
of the ob ject and inception of the Kiosk, the toute ensemble 
is remarkably good. There aretwoside wings whuh are 
hung with mats, fans, and a series of Oeylon photographs 
taken chiefly by Sooweu. At the back curtains are 
hung, behind which the servants prepare the tea. Mr. 
Watson has, no doubt, kept you informed as to the 
financial part of the profit. I am glad to learn it is so 
successful in this respect, aud that there is at pre- 
sent a considerable profit on the sale of tea in the cup. 
Up to date the expenses are, roughly, £7 10 per week, 
and the receipts about £2 per diem. The Kiosk is 
greatly in request by ladies for giving tea-parties in 
the evening, and although, perhaps, this may not pay, 
still the results as to advertising Ceylon tea are great. 
Naturally, taking so great an interest in, Oev'on 
* We h»ve had ours mounted and circulate i 
through the Fort.— Ed. 
