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THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. [February r, 1882. 
euerally so small that 
now approach- 
□sumptioii, 
quantity of 
the whole was rather unattrai 
ary twigs and branch, part oi 
lb. We must repeat a suggef 
It wpuld be 'better to leave t 
them forward, as these low p 
The remainder of the piles 
do not give details. 
The price of English quinine is 8s per oz. 
«)« a price that ought to considerably increase cons 
It will be seen from figures given 'below that tht 
bark landed during the last month was 3,000 packages in excess 
of quantity delivered, thus further increasing the previous 
heavy stock. 
. One good feature of the article is the largely increased de- 
livery for the first 10 months of present year over any previous 
year, but then the imports have increased to a still larger ex- 
tent; the question naturally arises will flic latter he maintained. 
The large supply is mainly owing to the arrivals of Cuprea, 
aud there are reports now and again that the shipments of this 
description are likely to fall off, but, in the absence of any de- 
finite information fully confirming this, we give the statement 
for what it may be worth. 
The stock, imports, &c, of East India bark are not returned 
separately; the following figures include all kinds of medicinal bark:— 
10,747 packages. 
7,423 do 
1879. 1878. 1877. 
19,341 11,270 11,531 
do 
Total stk. 1st Oct. pkgs. 45,720 
Total imports from Jan. 
1st to Oct. 31st. 99,746 
l>o deliveries do 80,015 
03,700 51,120 38.2(51 20,879 
56,955 43,722 39,959 24,174 
(Jas. Cook & Co.) 
London, 40, Mincing Lane, 24th Nov. 1881. 
Cinchona Babk.— There is nothiug cheering to report this 
week; the market is depressed by the heavy arrivals and 
prospective supplies of Cuprea Bark, the "Humber," just ar- 
rived, having brought 7,000 serons, The public sales were a 
little smaller this week, and there being an evident disposi- 
tion to sell, a much larger proportion than usual of the 
South American Bark was disposed of. Cuprea, which formed 
the bulk of the quantity offered, went at lower prices, Is 2d 
to Is 6d, but the Carthagena sold with competition at full 
rates— VO WO Is lOd at Is lid, VO 2fs, WO 8 2s 2d, and 
WO Z 2s 8d to 3s Id per lb. 
Ceymn. — Although the quantity offered this week was larger 
the 228 packages brought forward comprised a number of 
small lots of poor and undesirable qualities, which sold irre- 
gularly and in buyers' favour. A large proportion consisted 
of twigs— which in many cases sold on about the same terms, 
whether Crown or lied. For 20 cases good Bed Druggist quill, 
R.SCS B {in diamond), which sold two months since at 2s lOd 
to 2s lid, an offer of 3s was made in the room. A price, doubt- 
less, obtainable only in consequence of the great scarcity of 
Bark suitable for Druggists' purposes. 
There are no arrivals from "Ceylon, but the " Para" and 
"Humber'' bring 7,500 packages Central American. 
Writing on November 30th, Messrs. Lewis & Peat 
report little or no change in the market : the arri- 
vals and sales during the fortnight had been very large. 
COEFEE LEAF DISEASE. 
We regret to learn that Hemileia vastatrix has 
appeared rather badly on the estate in the Dumbara 
valley, which was lately visited by Mr. Schrottky and 
Dr. Sh ; pton, and which was accepted as a test of the 
system adopted by the former. It was hoped that 
the immunity from disease then observed would con- 
tinue till after the blossoming season. 
Our Aberdeen correspondent, writing about the end 
of last month, said: — 
Yesterday I sent to Mv. A. Stephen Wilson your 
copy of Mr. Ward's report. I expect the letter 
I told you of in a few days: He was to wait till he 
saw Mr. Ward's report. I had a talk with Mr. Wilson 
10 days ago, and he thought it was not impossible 
that something might be done to check leaf-disease, 
reasoning by analogy, from potato disease in Cham- 
pion. There is a something in the Champion— a dif- 
; uci of some kind or other, — that presents a check 
to the progress of the disease. The disease or fungus, 
attacks the Champion in the same viay exactly as other 
varieties, but "the something" prevents its progress 
and the destruction Of tho tubers. What that some- 
thing is h»B not been discovered. It may be some 
alight (structural diil'ercnce, ±Yuu this tuvt it i» not 
unreasonable to infer the possibility of discovering a 
disease-resisting coffee, or a something that will render 
old coffee disease-resisting. Some 18 years ago I eug- 
gested in a " News from the North," hybridizing 
Coffea Arabica with Liberian, in view of obtaining 
an extra development of some feature in the cross that 
might, as in Champion potatoes, resist disease, but I have 
not heard of any one making the hybrid and testing it. 
I told Mr. Wilson, any suggestion he could make 
for experiment would be gladly received by planters. 
The position as a Cryptogamist of acknowledged 
ability and considerable experience attained by Mr. 
Stephen Wilson (an independent lauded proprietor in 
Aberdeenshire) has been recognized by the first 
authorities of the day, and we take credit to ourselves 
for having interested this gentleman in our Ceylon 
pest. All the literature at our command has been 
sent to him from time to time. Mr. Wilson has been 
for some years engaged in investigating the club-root 
fungus infesting turnips, the rust of wheat and the 
potato fungus, with some others of lees note, and he 
has made imporl ant discoveries in connection therewith 
which had escaped the attention of specialists, and 
which have been duly -acknowledged. Mr. Berkeley 
has recently been naming a parasite discovered by 
this gentleman, which destroys the leaves of the lilac. 
We may therefore look for an interesting and in- 
structive letter from Mr. Stephen Wilson, and we trust 
shortly to lay it before our readers. 
CEYLON PRODUCE IN THE LONDON MARKET : 
TEA AND CINNAMON. 
The latest sale of Ceylou tea is more encouraging than 
several of those preceding- it. Ou Wednesday there were 
sold 70 half chests and boxes per S.S- " Baneoora " in 
lots ranging from 5 boxes to 19 half chests. As I have 
already explained, the dealers will not take the trouble 
to draw samples of small " breaks" and hence 
they do net obtain their full intrinsic value. This tea is 
described to me as having a pleasant, rather spicy flavour, 
and better too used by itself than for mixing purposes, 
because it lacks that strength aud loughness which makes 
Assam so popular with retailers for helping off poor cheap 
China cargoes, etc. In make, your Ceylan teas are gen- 
erally spe. king as good as Assam, and I am surprized at 
this, for I should have thought the skilled labour would 
have been too scarce for that at present. The following 
are the details of Wednesday's sale: — 
Sembewatte, 19 half chests pekoe souchong Is 3 Jd ; 10 
half chests broken pekoe Is 4id. 
Ruanwella 5 half chests pekoe souchong Is 2Jd, 5 
boxes broken pekoe Is OJd. 
Dunedin, S boxes pekoe souchong Is- 4Jd, 17 half chests 
souchong Is 4Jd, 6 half chests Is 2|d. 
The Cinnamon sale on Monday, the biggest ever held, 
was well attended, but it was quite evident, from the first, 
that a substantial fall was expected and would have to 
be conceded in order to tffect sales. You are aware of 
course, that very little, if any cinnamon, is ever bought on 
speculation. The buyers have either orders actually in 
hand, or are well assured that they can place their pur- 
chases at once. Mr. Kilby was the first occupant of the 
pulpit, but he received sinali encouragement in the shape 
of bids, and so bought in the whole. Messrs. Lewis cc 
Peat came next with a comparatively light catalogue which 
was partly disposed of at a reduction of 2d to 4d on the 
previous sale prices, and then came Messrs- W. J. and 
a\ Thompson, who, as usual, held the lion's share of the 
sale, not only as regards quantity but quality. At first 
thoy got on better than might have been expected, the 
finer going at a reduction of 2d to 3d, but rates on prices 
became irregular, and some of the commoner sorts showed 
a reduction of as much as Od. When their catalogue was 
about half through, it became evident that the buyers 
hud been piettty well supplied, and bo the rest was wisely 
