December i, 1881.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
543 
A Coff 
Branca, I 
5,000 an 
40,000$. 
Luciauo I 
Mill 
Puub 
the 30th nit. at 0 
>f trade 
e most 
Moscow 
erland. I was curious 
the very best of both 
conclusion, confirmed 
d in the Bale of sea- 
f their own is more 
is in the Iuukbta 
! Cockroaches. — I would recoi 
a pint of beer, ami to heat 
ted. As the 
to tie some 
a bit of net- 
acre.— Englishman. 
IIOW to EXTBBMII 
mend "G. H." to i 
in a saucepan, dissolving as mu 
6\veeten it nicely. Then procure 
lib. jelly cans,' iill thorn half f 
sugar and Btand them where the 
to run. Put them down in the 
morning ho will have from six t< 
in each jar. The same mixture 
when if desired the dose should 
jars are smooth outside, it is 
rough material round about thoi 
ting or shading material. I found 
than any poison I could procure 
Gardens, Gordon House, Isleworth. 
Ouange Trees in Pots. — As t 
the ripening stage, it is necessa 
hold manure water, hut water 
given carefully, else the rapid .swell 
the skin au'd spoils it. If thcr 
fruit, they may be removed int 
Grapes are hanging. It is one 
the Orange tree that itr may bo 
to a cool house, or vice versa, \ 
of constitutional derangement. T 
the trees until it is wanted, and 
leaves should also bo cut with it 
ripo fruit can be moved in this 
right kind of treatment being gr\ 
te bearing fruit not fully devcloj 
Bhoidd bo kept up to 65° or 70° 
is green. — F. Douolas, ' Loxford.- 
Jalap. — A note was read bj 
On " Some Samples of Jamaica-^ 
the C urator of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical 
bociety by Mr. D. Moms, Director of the Botanical 
Gardens of Jamaica. One sample consisted of small 
tubers and another of slices of larger ones, The slices 
of the tubers had been dried by artificial heat, and they 
bore evidence of having been heated while still moist. 
The tubers h^t 17 - 3 per cent, of water between 220° 
mi I 226 P., the slices 14'1 per cent. The tubors con- 
luim i 8'27 per cent, of resin insoluble in ether (Mayer's 
Konvolvulin ") and 0-86 of resin soluble in ether. The 
sliced tubers contained 8*68 of insoluble rosiu and 1-21 
of soluble resin, theso amounts being in each case cal- 
culated on the dry substance, showing that Jamaic- - 
grown jalap yields loss resin than the Kverage of good 
■Hllimn jalap, imd that it approaches more m arly to 
that grown by Mr. Smith in the Botanical Gardens 
I of Trinity College, Dublin (Pharm. Journ., [2], vol. x., p. 
M .i . Professor Tichborne said he considered the growth 
of urge tuber- .if jalap to be a mistake as he had 
always found them to be deficient in resin. Mr. Yonng, 
however, said that a Calcutta firm, in ordering jalap, 
bad desired to be supplied with the largest obtainable 
tubers. It inaj be remarked that the tuber- examined 
were the result of Mr. Banbury's Introduction of jalap 
into Jamaica in 180'.!. — Pharmaceutical Journal. 
sent to 
tion which cannot be efl'ected in the hermetically closed 
boxes it reaches Europe by the sea route ; so that if 
seafaring tea, liko portwine, easily commends itself to the 
taste, and nerves of a strong, hardworking man, a dainty 
refined lady would give preference to a cap of iviakhta tea, 
as she would to a glass of Chateau Yquein. — Timesof India. 
Timber in British Columbia. — Though the agricult- 
ural capabilities of British Columbia may not be so 
great as other parts of Canada, its mines are doubtless 
very rich, and from a recent report of Professor Daw- 
eon, of the Dominion Geological Survey, its forests are 
of great importance. Many first-class mills have been 
established in various parts of the country, and the 
total annual product is stated to be about 200,000,000 
feet, of which 25,000,000 feet is exported to other 
countries, 25,000,000 foot used at home, and 150,000,000 
feet sent to California. Professor Dawson estimates that 
110,000,000 acres (or two-thirds of the whole proxince) 
are covered with timber. The Douglas Fir, or Oregon 
ds 8 feet in dia 
it of £r< 
large and dark forests. The 
Cedar are the other imports 
both of which, the latter ei 
size. When the great plains c 
the mines and forests of British 
importance, and then 1 produce ( 
profitable traffic for the Canadiai 
Coffee Leaf Disease in Jt 
st year has not 
nnmercial tree. It fre- 
leter above the ground, 
200 to 300 feet, forming 
'estern Hemlock and Bed 
trees of the province, 
icially, grow to a great 
Canada become populous, 
dumbia should be of great 
jht to provide a large and 
a<ific Railway. — L. Times. 
. — The coffee leaf disease 
dy continued to spread 
ations at the westward end of the I-land 
the 
forti 
pori 
seasons nas greatly 
ever, hoped that a i 
will cause a marked 
attacked. The pres( 
tected in two ways, 
light green spots ox 
presence underneath 
o appeared in several gardens in 
As the subject in question is un- 
t to some of our colonies, the 
ler Majesty's Consid in regard to 
of some value. A commission was 
ivenimeut of Netherlands India to 
n of the disease, and their re- 
that it is mostly met with on poor 
I, and that the succession of wet 
spread tho contagion; it is, how- 
sourrence of normaally dry years 
decrease in the percentage of trees 
nee of the disease is in Java de- 
viz. : either by the appearance of 
the upper side of the leaf, or by the 
of an orange-coloured kind of dust. 
In plants severely attacked, the leaves turn black or 
brown, and rapidly fall off. The chief Government 
inspector in Java recommends the adoption of the fol- 
lowing simple measures for the suppression of the disease. 
— 1. The hoeing up of the ground surrounding tin tree- 
beyond the spread of (lie branches to the depth of 
abut six inches, leaving the clods turned up intact. 
1 2. The construction of ditches, or holes about eighteen 
I inches deep between every intermediate row of plants, 
I dosturbiug tho earth dug out proportionately over the 
garden. 3. In regular gardens or wherever the con 
