November t, iSSr.l THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
425 
of note that, 
judged the Li 
is entirely free 11 
is beginning to 
heartening extet 
plants, strong ai 
regret to see, be> 
or 
Notes. — It is worthy 
can be at present 
planted in Wvnaad 
;ted. But the young Libe- 
nsery are firm, green and 
tlion of Liberian coffee a 
xtion to those who still 
2 coffee is growing old in 
speculative gold mine. It 
years' time, t lie appearance 
to becomo entirely altered, 
ok jungles of cinchonas, and 
be nconled by busy miners 
jbastly 
rovi 
difficulty 
asks why 
possible 1) 
not yet cu 
and help tlie pi 
won 1 
persi 
1 politic 
Ira* Times. 
labour in 
t, from the 
irors, the Indian Tea Gazette 
ionld not be formed, aided if 
to buy up waste jungle land 
neighbourhood of the gardens, 
emigrate to it from the more 
thickly populated districts of Bengal ? Our contemp- 
orary thinks that the scheme might, and probably 
ded only that the people could bo 
igrato, as the land in many cases 
for rice crops, when it would in 
e\v years become very valuable ; or, 
d for 1 ice, it might grow sugar-cane, 
011 the laud should nearly if not 
3 cost of clearing. It would, of 
curse, be an immense boon for planters to have a 
resident population around them, for one of the 
most tiresome, and in many casts expensive matters 
connected with the tea industry is the importing of 
laborers to work a garden. The people, however, 
seem loath to move, and appear to prefer abject 
qui 
poverty in their own 
id a land not far 
still, to them, a str 
LlNDULA, Sept. 14 
desired. Most estat 
Crop beginning to r] 
advances given out 
disappeared. If it cc 
not think it will aff< 
fresh leaves 
district to comparative comfort 
removed from their home, but 
iDge one. 
ih.— Weather all that can be 
■ly every year, I do 
rops, as the tree9 are 
iirprisingly short time. 
Trees with crop o» look healthy and strong. Grub 
is hot spreading. There is less of it in the district, a3 
far as the appoaranco of estates goes, than we have 
had tor the last four yea) 
not travel from east to w 
1 and grub do 
a east. A lien 
due oust, they 
Drub will (lis- 
ten me it was 
ago, but after- 
\rs ago 
attack south. Will anyone deny 
appear as it did before. Old pla 
bad m one or two districts about 3- 
v/ard» disappeared. Again they can 
anp again died away. Wo have them again, "and it" 
•I"' onablu to expect that in another couple of years 
the words ""Into grub" will bo in 110 one's mouth. 
Our roads want thoroughly doing up. If you travel 
from tho Agras as far as Kotmalo, yt>u wiil not tiud 
more ill hi four very small gangs of coolies. This is moro 
like the years in which we used to got lots of rain in 
September. Coolies arc, aa a rule, very healthy. No 
thanks to the doctors, for we never nee them. Tho 
Medical Ordinance mu I he revised. This will be one 
of tin- most importaut ipiestious for tho new plant- 
107 
k, and, if the 
Only in very 
ing member to bring forward. Mr. I!. A. Bosan- 
quet's name is talked of as the right man to be cent to 
Council. Just had a small washing of coffee. Ittui ii3out 
between 70 and 75 rjer cent. This I consider very good 
for the early pickings. Cinchona trees "shaved," and 
no covering used, feel the effects of continual rains 
The side facing tho south-west turns bl 
tree is not a large healthy one, it dies 
exposed places they die. If there is a little shelte 
from the S. W. they do well. 
The Variations of Climate in Hai>utale, Ceylon : 
1 1th .Sept.— The weather report s for August, sent you from 
Haputale, have been so conflicting that the enclosed 
weather table, as registered by six estates, proves that 
the reports sent you from the various correspondents 
were strictly true, although by no means applicable 
to the whole of Haputide. Steady rain from late last 
night till now (2 p.m.), and sppears pretty gtncral 
over the whole of Haputale. 
Elovatiou 
Aug. about 
lb'Sl. 
2 
5 
6 
7 
... 2,200 
Lt. shower 
do 
do 
do 
Elevation Elevation Elevation Elcvatu 
about a out about 
1,100 2,200 3/i00 
Drizzle Shower 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
20 Hy. shower 
21 do 
22 Lt. showers 
24 Showers 
25 do 
26 
27 Lt. shower 
29 
30 
Shower 
Showers 
do 
Shower 
do 
Drizzle Showe 
Bain do 
about 
6,100 
Rain 
Hy. shower 
Bain 
Lt, rain 
Hy. shower 
Showers 
Kain 
Drizzle 
do 
do 
Ruin 
do 
Gentle rain 
Showers 
Hy. shower 
Lt. showers Shower 
Drizzle 
Lt. shower 
A lew drops 
Rain 
Shower 
do 
Under Govt. Road, 
Lemastota. 
Elevation 
— -A. 
Rainfall 
Aug. 
about 
August. 
1881. 
3,100 
5 
Lt. rain 
0-31 
7 
Lt. shower 
■15 
9 
do 
01 
11 
do 
12 
do 
13 
do 
11 
do 
06 
15 
Lt. rain 
01 
16 
Showers 
17 
Rain 
Jo 
18 
Showers 
03 
19 
Rain 
09 
20 
Shower 
21 
do 
25 
22 
do 
11 
23 
Shower 
34 
Lt. do 
do 
•10 
26 
do 
02 
Kanda- Under the Highest 
pola Pass, coffee estato 
end. in Haputale. 
Wiharagalla. 
1 63 0-59 0-59 
Total...2-8G 
Pi.antaiv 1'ii:i:k. -There a; pears now no doubt 
as lo the suitability of plantain lihro for pajHr manu- 
facture. The Ik'iigal Government is encouraging tho 
cultivation of tho wild plantain for tho purpose, and 
