August i, 1881.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
229 
the iuapor 
Manila C( 
seeds are 
this fresh 
altitudes ; 
merit appc 
Tub T01 
excellent 
good time 
But lc=s t 
England d 
year since 
found to 1 
Kirkos\ 
enquiries 
Arthur, m 
particulars 
his letter 
realized is 
it has bee 
although ■ 
which fet 
quantity r 
regard to 
ally consi 
LjiDGEB 
Mr. Chris 
there are 
producing 
estate, Ma 
of planting 
printer (In 
Mclvor's 1 
latter pai 
■We have received from 
3idinands) a sample of 
in the cherry and the 
preservation. We trust 
, fair trial at different 
Ceylon. An advertise- 
>mp. 
[pped from the State to 
u- than in any previous 
the British market was 
'land Mail. 
-With reference to the 
1 just going to ask Mr. 
aid, to favour us with 
ield of his trees, when 
afternoon. The pried 
1. We are not sure that 
I of Ceylon red bark (?), 
icing Lane old red bark 
10s per lb. for a certain 
for show purposes. In 
don, 5s has been gener- 
per lb. for red bark. 
!eylon. — It appears from 
1 another column that 
the same seed as those 
trees, on St. Andrew's 
'cars old from the date 
mistake (or rather our 
1875 as the year of Mr. 
if the plants 
the pulping of Liberian 
cuses to do its work we 
a planter who saw an 
codec in the Kuruuegal 
we find that the result ol 
by Messrs. .1. Walker & 
pulper will not meet th 
and that two machines 
ly bo debited with 
/er IS months in 
used for Liberian 
. But on enquiry 
)f experiments made 
.roved that the disc 
incuts of the case, 
Which they have demonstrated by full trials to do 
the work efficiently. 
Cacao in Ecuador.— The American Mail tells 
us that the Christmas crop of Cacao in Ejcuador 
(usually a fair indication as to the probable yield of the 
entiro orop of the year) proved to be very small, and 
cacao on the snot was quite scarce. There had been 
continual and heavy nun-', to a considerable extent 
destroying the blossoms. Consequently only a small 
crop is expected in I SSI. The total production of l,N7!» 
Ml 815,842 quintals, and that of 18S0 has been ascer- 
tained to be :;:iS,7'T) quintals. Tho quintal is lUUlb. 
but whether the lbs. are the same us the English lb. we 
do not learn. Tho French metrical system is the only 
legal one, but commerce still clings to tho old weights 
— as it dies with us for cacao lo Iho arroba, of 110 lb. 
English, instead of the cwt., or tho very convenient 
cental of 100 lb. Engl, introduced into Liverpool for 
certain articles, from New York. Ecuador had 85 m. 
of railway in 1*77. Its public revenue in the year 
1876-77 was £340,906.— Trinidad ( 
58 
Australian Apples in India. — In January 1878, 
a member of the Calcutta Agricultural Society (Mr. 
S. H. Robinson) brought out on the " Khedive" a ham- 
per full of apples from Devonshire of the ribstone pippin 
and rlatnosed pippin kinds, both keeping or storeapples. 
In this hamper 60 were brought, lightly packed in, 
the hamper, each in separata pieces of paper. After a 
voyage of six weeks two only had decayed, and four 
were somewhat bruised : the rest were all good and 
retained their flavour fairly. The hamper was kept 
in the cabin the first two weeks of the voyage, and for 
the rest of the voyage was kept cool in the ship's ice 
room, but not in the ice. — Agrihorticullural Society of 
India. 
Bombay Agricultural and Manufacturing Co. 
— The prospectus of this Company, lately issued, 
states that it has been formed for the purchase of 
an estate of 7,000 acres in the Kunnah valley in 
the Bombay presidency, on which it is proposed to 
grow cotton, Liberian coffee, tobacco, oil-seeds &c. 
Regarding the Liberian coffee, the prospectus says : — 
" The climate, altitude, and soil of the estate appears 
to be of a most desirable nature for the culture of 
this tree. It is proposed to cultivate about 1,500 
acres with the Liberian coffee tree ; this, taking only 
four hundred trees to the acre, is estimated to pro- 
duce about 5,000 cwt. of coffee." The capital of the 
Company is 250,000 shares of £1 each, of which the 
vendor takes 45,000. 
The Tea-planters are crying out about agencies 
for the sale of their teas at home, without olfering 
the slightest assistance to the struggling agency as 
advertised in your columns. 1 guess few have been 
to the trouble of cutting out the advertisement and 
forwarding it to their friends at home. If every one 
interested in the cultivation and the prosperity of 
the tea in Ceylon had done so, your late correspond- 
ent's friends need not have gone to so much trouble 
to procure the rubbish described at 5s per lb. The 
agent for tho sale of Ceylon teas in Aberdeen and the 
North will be pleased to communicate with those 
who think their teas are not known or have not 
been sufficiently brought to public notice. I enclose 
my card, and shall be glad to hear from any one 
wdio is willing to encourage an agency for the sale 
Biscuits. — We have 
y remarks on the 
eylon Commissioner 
istributed as widely 
's Private Secretary 
the kind present of 
him by you from 
Australian Aitles and Meat 
S^w'hichTere sent Ey^the < 
as possible The Lieut. -Governo 
writes:— "His Excellency the Lieu 
to convey to you his thanks fo 
a bos of apples forwarded to 
the Commissioner for Ceylon at the Melbourne 
Exhibition. They are of most excellent quality." 
The manager of a Colombo firm wrote :— " Many 
thanks for the two beautiful Victorian apples which 
you sent me. Will try them at dessert to-night, and 
if these prove as good as they're bonnio they'll 
be relished." A Kandy gentleman writes:—" I 
forgot to write and thank you yesterday for the 
Australian apple which was simply delicious. It will 
indeed bo a great blessing, if we can mauago to im- 
port theso fruits ut prices which will bring them 
within the reach of ordinary mortals. The Com- 
missioner certainly deserves the thanks of tho Colouy 
for what ho has douo at Melbourne." As we 
paid, the experiment was not an entire success, 
about 25 per cent of tho apples beiug bad on 
arrival, but we hope this will bo remedied in future 
consignments. 'i ho shipment to Calcutta was even 
more unfortunate, for we read in tho Friend of India: — 
"We have hid the pleasure of trying the quality of an 
experimental consignment of Australian applet which 
have been received bv a mercantile firm in town, and 
