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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[June i, 1881. 
inestimable service to mankind. If the people of 
England, anh still more the people of India, are 
contented that this should be the requital for such 
service, there is nothing more to be said." The volume, 
it may be stated, is plentifully illustrated with maps 
and diagrams. — Scotsman. 
CINCHONA. 
(From our London Correspondent.) 
The auction this week went off very irregularly, and 
the prices realized were moderate. There was great 
interest felt in this sale, because of the large quant- 
ity of Indian Government bark arrived by the "Eldo- 
rado" and " Kaiser-i-Hind. " 1 give you the result 
of the sale of this importation, which was principally 
grown in the Government gardens at Ootacamund : — 
" KED." 
Natural. Branch. 
1880 1881 1880 1881 
Bales, Price. Bales- Price. Bales. Price. Bales. Price. 
2 
2 7 
2 
1 
10 
5 1 
2 
35 
2 9 
23 
2 
4 1 
3 
75 
2 10 
4 
2 
1 
4 1 
4 
39 
2 11 
18 
2 
4 
4 1 
5 
42 
3 — 
56 
2 
5 
21 1 
8 
37 
3 2 
5 
2 
6 
22 2 
7 
54 
3 8 
70 
2 
9 
35 3 
14 
3 10 
60 
2 
10 
5 3 
l 
65 
4 — 
46 
3 
1 
5 
4 1 
41 
4 
110 bales 
2 
5 — 
Scraped. 
370 bales 325 
Renewed. 
A 
188( 
1881 
"~ 1880. 
1881. 
Bale 
s. Price. 
Bales 
Price. 
Bales. Price. 
Bales, Price. 
s. 
d. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
9 
5 
4 ... 
15 
4 2 
16 4 5 
15 2 11 
I 
5 
6 ... 
35 
4 4 
35 4 6 . 
. 2 3 
3 
5 
8 ... 
30 
4 5 
48 4 7 . 
. 18 3 1 
3 
5 
9 ... 
33 
4 7 
85 3 7 
102 
6 
3 ... 
15 
4 9 
5 3 8 
15 
6 
4 ... 
18 
4 11 
140 3 10 
75 
6 
5 ... 
160 
5 
8 5 
5 
G 
6 ... 
5 
5 1 
43 
6 
10 ... 
60 
5 2 
99 bales 
273 bales 
1 
6 
11 ... 
1 
5 3 
6 
5 6 
Root. 
3 
s. d 
s. d. 
6 
6 
5 2 5 
... 4 1 6 
5 
6 1 
33 2 7 
... 10 2 5 
10 
7 
5 2 9 
... 9 2 8 
26 
7 2 
4 2 11 
2 3 
2£7 
ha) 
428 bales 
43 bales 
29 bales 
1880. 
1881. 
1880. 
1881. 
Bales. Price. 
Bales. Price. 
Bales. Price. 
Bales. Price, 
s. d. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
2 4 0. 
. 20 5 0 
1 
6 a 
.. 5 5 11 
14 3. 
. 28 5 8 
1 
6 7 
.. 25 6 
14 4. 
1 
6 8 
.. 6 7* 
2 4 8. 
8 
6 9 
.. *not sold 
5 4 9. 
6 
6 10 
14 5 
G 
6 11 
11 5 5. 
20 
7 
9 5 11 . 
7 
6 1 
20 6 
5 
7 3 
13 0 1 
4 
7 4 
23 6 4 
14 
7 10 
5 7 1 
5 
8 
106 bales 
48 bales 
78 bales 
36 bales. 
Branch. 
1880 
Bales. Price. 
16 
Bales. 
81 
Price. 
1880 
Bales. Price- 
1 
Ba 
881 
les. Price 
7 8 4 
5 
7 7 
1 2 4 
8 
1 10 
5 8 6 
9 
7 9 
12 2 7 
. r j 
1 11 
10 8 7 
50 
8 11 
8 
2 — 
3 - 8 10 
25 
9 — 
9 
3 4 
4 9 — 
5 
9 1 
30 10 1 
22 
10 3 
13 bales 
28 
bales 
13 10 2 
72 bales 
116 bales 
TEA IN CEYLON. 
A certain tea estate in Ceylon enjoys a reputation 
among Ceylon folks at h >me for splendid tea. 1 am 
in a position to tell that estate to exercise yet a 
little more watchfulness while tea is being put Hp 
for shipment. This estate has sent to England tea 
put up in bulk and in 2 lb. tins. The former — of 
which I have seen several cases — is uniform in ap- 
pearance, excellent in quality and free from dust 
The same cannot be said of the 2 lb. tins, for, about 
a third of the number contained in one box are 
very much different from the remaining two-thirds. 
The third is a fine leaf, broken into $th to Jth inch, 
very superior in quality, and although the appear- 
ance of the leaf is pleasing to the eyes of those 
skilled in teas it is too small to command its value 
from the general consumer. The two-thirds fall short 
of that estate's handsome clean leaf bulk cases, by 
being poorer in extract, flavour, and very dusty. 
The fault lies in packing tins of very different quali- 
ties into the same box. The retailer selling a sam- 
ple tin cannot guarantee the others to be the same.— 
Aberdeen Cor., April 1st. 
THE "TEA CYCLOPAEDIA. ' : 
This, according to the somewhat lengthy title, is 
" a volume of selections from leading and original 
articles, correspondence, and papers, regarding mat- 
ters of permanent interest and value concerning tea 
and tea science, tea blights, soils, and manures, tea 
cultivation, buildings and manufacture, miscellaneous 
tea topics, tea statistics, &c, &c, &c, collected from 
the last eight volumes of the Indian Tea Gazette, and 
from several other valuable sources, and classified ac- 
cording to subjects, by the editor of the Indian Tea 
Gazette. Illustrated with colored plates on ' blights,' 
from drawings by S. E. Peal." The synopsis at the 
beginning states that 
This Volume has, for greater convenience to readers, 
been divided into Parts, with separating half-titles. 
The first section treats of Tea Science, and the botany 
and chemical properties of Tea, as well as of the early 
history of the industry. The second section is devoted to 
a reproduction of the most valuable papers on, and cor- 
respondence and opinions regarding, ' ' Tea Blights and 
Tea Pests," which have appeared in the pages of the 
Tea Gazette during the last four years, as well as in 
those of contemporaneous journals. The Third part is 
devoted to an exhaustive consideration of every point 
bearing upon Tea Cultivation and Manufacture for the 
past four years, arranged as nearly as possible under 
distinctive sub-heads. Part IV contains special refer- 
ence to the principal Tea Districts of India, with incid- 
ental notes on the less important districts, while 
statistical tables of Indian Tea Cultivation, as far as 
published to date, are appended. Part V shows the 
countries, other than China and India, in which Tea 
Cultivation is now being carried on, or has at any time 
been attempted. Part VI refers to the discussions 
which have taken place regarding the opening up of 
new markets for Indian Tea, and of operations as far 
