December i, 1881.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
491 
coffee at 100 shillings per cvvt. ! ! Will our Govern- 
ment stand still with such a prospect and say no 
railway for the present ? Are the planters to wear 
themselves out first and spend all their money to 
prove to the Government that cinchona will pay, 
and that coffee will be improved by ihe rooting up 
of the cinchona, and tonic manure from falling 
leaves? If the Chinese give up opium for cinchona, 
there will bo little fear 0!' glutting the market 
with a populatiou of 400,000,000 of Chinese. One 
thing they may do, and that is, set to work and 
cultivate cinchona themselves, as the Yankees are try- 
ing tea in Georgias. Whatever price quinine stands 
at, it will alwaiix be a drug in the market ! I have 
3y displayed on the 
in delaying railway 
30th September, 18^1. 
H. H. THE MAHARAJAH OF JOHORE'S TEA 
AND COFFEE GARDENS. 
We w( 
til 
take an interest in 
planting to drive over to Taujong Putri, Johore, and 
make an inspection of the tea and coffee plantation 
of H. H. the Vlaharajah of Johore. It will show 
those interested what can be done in these two pro- 
ducts, and enable them to form some estimate of what 
the ordinary soil of the country in low lands is cap- 
able of producing. The plantation in question may 
be termed an experimental one. It is within two or 
tbre 
d there are about two 
mount of coffee planted, 
the trees are about two 
x or eight feet high, and 
turpi 
The coffee is Liberiau 
years old. The plants are six or 
the branches cover a circle of 
diameter. They are ono and all 
in different stages of ripeness. £ 
ries are they that it will probal 
thin them, and it is somewhat 
that, although the ground has be 
and pepper growers, no manure has been required for 
the coffee. The tea has been planted quite recently, 
and a portion of the plants have been cut about one 
month and show a wonderful growth of young leaves 
which, as is pretty generally known, produce the 
finest quality of tea. Various kinds of tea plants 
have been planted together, but the bulk of the seeds 
came from the Indian tea countries, though all of the 
plants seem equally healthy and strong. On the ground 
there is a shed for cooking and preparing the tea 
leaves. The kiln dried tea is very similar to Assam, 
»nd the same leaves sun-dried give a decoction similar 
to the tea used by the Chiuese. In both cases the 
flavour is an agreeable one, and should take well in 
the local and home markets. J he undoubted success 
of both tea and coff e so near our own door is truly 
remarkable, and leads one to anticipate a possible 
prosperous future for tho waste binds of our island 
as well as Johore. Close to the plantation wc have 
Bwribed, II. H. the Maharajah has taken in hand to 
clear a l irgo patch of primaeval jungle of its under- 
■growth, leaving undisturbed the high forest trees. 
This is intended for cocoa which luis been tried to a 
considerable extent in tho open country, but it is 
thought that it may do better in tho shade, ns there 
the tree itself, as well as the subsoil, will be pro- 
tected from the rnyx of thu sun. It is interesting to 
Me tho Yakoons of thu jungle working away heartily 
— felling the smaller trees, and they scorn to bo well 
suited for the work— being muscular and active in 
their movements. Fither residents or strangers have 
tho opportunity of spending an agreeable day at Jo- 
hore in visiting the plantations we have described, 
and H. H. the Maharajah, who is an enthusiastic 
planter, has always been kind enough to give those 
who take an interest in such matters all the informa- 
tion and assistance in his power. — Straits Times. 
SALE OF CINCHONA BARK IN COLOMBO. 
Messrs. Robinson & Dunlop put up for public sale 
at their offices to-day (Oct. 20th) the undermentioned 
lots of cinchona bark : — 
T. C. A.— 1,232 lb. mixed officinalis and 
succirubra t wigs and pieces. 
From full-grown trees in 
Dikoya district. Analysis 
by Mr. Dixon shews 1 04 R. c. 
yield of sulphate of quinine... 0 27 
lb. 
Diagama — 1,886 succirnbra twigs ... 0 27 
88 „ quills ... 0 35 
366 ,, broken quills ... 0 49 
158 „ chips ... 0 33 
103 „ dust ... ) fl - 
252 officinalis dust ... j U 7 
421 ,, twigs ... 0 21 
From three year old trees, grown at an elevation of 
5,000 feet in the Agrapatana. 
lb. R. c. 
Kabragalla— 112 succirubra twigs and chips. 0 22 
78 ,, root ... 0 56 
22 „ quills ... 0 84 
Avoca— 232 ,, twigs ... 0 15 
40 „ quills ... 0 25 
298 officinalis twigs ... 0 20 
Gonavy— 132 ,, twigs ... 0 10 
Valladolid— 
3,727 ,, stem pieces ... 0 54 
332 ,, root ... 0 57 
201 „ twigs ... 0 21 
From 3} year old trees, Maskeliya. Analysis by Mr. 
Symons gives yield sulphate of quinine D16. 
lb. R. c . 
Errol— 260 succirubra twigs ... 0 16 
300 ,, root bark 0 81 
284 ,, stem pieces 0 64 
204 „ bark ... 0 5S 
The above from three to four year old trees, Dik- 
oya district. 
Agrakande — 
lb. R. c. 
557 succirubra bold twigs .. ) 
1S4 „ quill and quil [o 29 
pieces ... ) 
56 ,, pieces hnd shav- 
ings (from 4 to six 
year old trees) ... 0 85 
170 ,, pieces (from 9 
year old trees) ... 1 S 
267 ,, (mossed) stem 
shavings from 4 to 
6 year old trees... 1 40 
370 ,, (mossed stem 
chips from 9 year 
old trees ... 1 30 
The attendance was not so good as on previous 
occasions, nnd, owing to tho recent fall in Europe 
prices obtained were lower than at last sales. Bid- 
dings were fairly spirited. 
Tkek Planting is going on briskly in the Cape 
Colony. Mr. \V. Rogers, of the Boutehok, has ob- 
tained al>out thirty thousand young trees from the 
Botaoia Garden*, Grabamstuwn, for planting ou his 
fkhn. — C'up>' Ptiper. 
