January 2, 1882.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
requires fair treatn 
The British lyrnenr ia 
fow 
ture 
due: 
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can Ik 
duo tc 
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tree from any loc 
common enemies, 
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COFFEE 
G REST 
vember 1881. 
tera' mind that, 
t the strength 
((ling pa 
Ward's Third jReport on Leaj'-Disaase, 
Marshall 
ced ot ? 
to be 
yoyloii ; 
iment ? 
»y be, th 
suet 
-peak o 
likely 
,ngbt, 
torpor, 
any i 
ttiuu 
irely, 
" nor 
vay to 
We know that, chemically " 
thing as rest: whatever the 
is always some change in pi 
tion, or decomposition. I* < 
Buscitated, then, afortiori, the 
8u h a change wo can hardly 1 
We may safely assume th 
the writings cited above w 
for fun her work, rather t" a 
work. And, if I' read the e « 
they would not intentionally 
any want-begotten rest," aa 
Rtni lit our coll'ee ! 
CofTee is no free agent to 
the humour leaels her. If : 
can doubt that it is wanted 
been forcing, and more) late! 
mally large crops from our 
noted that it is theso ve 
have suffered adversit 
knuvea off the live bra 
forks from the rets. 
'T is not in this country as in old England, where 
yon eau, by heavily pruning, force a large or extra- 
ordinarily good crop of fruit to bo borne' by trees for 
which a bountiful providence has assigned uu un- 
Pj*tftJ kble season of apparent rest. Assuredly we have 
no reasonable grounds to look for a good "n xt year" 
Burt of crop auel also a supply of w»od for i he coming 
•eason, as the results of our auuual heavy primings. 
II " ma on the surface to be against all laws ot 
arboriculture ! 
No doubt both Dr. Trimen and Mr. Marshall Ward 
have observed many neost flagrant violations of laws 
MM- ani I arbori-cultural in the management (?) of our 
colleo estates. One can only respect thoir silence, re- 
Utmberiuu the old Greek saying. " Nothing is more" 
^graceful than meddling with other people's affairs. 
But it you, Mr. Editor, would ask one of these geu- 
tlenian to give us planters a few plain hints on such 
matt. 1 1 as the ino and abuso of pruning, manuring, 
and weeding, 1 feel euro that, apart irom his ex. 
:hes and our mamotiea and 
boiling, let them, v 
our rescue the wii 
research and learnio 
years hence, as the 1 
last cherry to ripen 
Science moves, but 
th( 
ast 
605 
1 would be glad of the 
eh a politico-economic 
a collection of planters' 
ty f.f the works above 
tract a catechismal set 
plify the work of our 
of our favorable s-ea- 
if-diseasc, those gentle- 
yet be done for pnv 
i.jds of most, and th-ic 
not absolutely ■■•tone 
s yet time, bring to 
3ir years of scientific 
ay not be said, a few 
:er waits, watching for 
its this land for ever:~ 
wly„ creeping on from 
"Full 
his rest: 
mies, but wisdom lingers, and I linger 
idual withers, and the world is more and 
mes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears 
xperience, moving toward the stillness of 
Faithfully yours, 
POST TENEBBAS LUX. 
CINCHONA CULTIVATION: FEOTOFTS* 
FORTY-FIVE ACRES OF OFFICINALIS. 
21st November 18S1. 
Deaii Sir —In your issue of the 19th instant, men- 
turn is made of 45 acres 4£ jr. officinalis in Hani, 
ooua yielding Zo tons dry bark when uprooted, and 
that tins was sold for £11,200. 
Could not the particulars of this very remunerative 
transaction be obtained and made public? I refer 
more especially to the number of trens to the acre, 
their height and g.rth.-Yours truly, PLANTER. 
[See paragraph on page GOO. —Ed.] 
THE ROBUST CINCHONA OF CEYLON. 
Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, 25th Nov. 1S81. 
Sir,— I nave read with much interest, in your 
columns, Col Bcddo.ne's account of his short visit to 
Ceylon and Jus impressions of cinchona cultivation as 
carried on here. Taken in connection with his pre- 
vious able report on the Nilgiri plantations, we pos- 
sess his "views" in a very clear and definite form 
I purpose to make at once a few observations up- 
on the robust and quick-growing cinchona of C eylon and 
Southern India, with which it seems likely Col. Bed- 
domes name will henceforth be connected, ,-inee he 
considers ir in all respects /he kind to cultivate. And 
hrst, I wish most distinctly to disavow the eonvic* 
hem attributed to me in- this report, thai I am 
" hilly convinced that it is a perfectly distinct 
species. Such is far from being the fact, and I am 
at a loss to understand how my friend the Colonel 
could have deduced such a view on my part from 
our frequent disooiiona on tho subject. Ever s:uca 
I have known, the plant, I have avoided any dogmat- 
ism as to its origin. In Mr. Owen's little '« Manual " 
I say of the sinooth-leaved form that it "may be 
another variety [of otlicinalis] or not imp obablv a 
permanent hybrid ol olhoiualis with suceirubra,'""and 
of the pubescent form that it " approaches C. succi- 
rubra" (pp. 23, -2i). It meu turu out a distinct 
apeoies, but 1 1 ink that d ita are wanting ttill to M-ttlo 
the queatiOB, and that Col, Beddome'a report does 
not supply th. m. In our view of the plant being 
a "hybrid, "we, iu Ceylon, have, of course, followed 
