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THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. [May i, 1882. 
665, I would be obliged by "E. E. A." informing me ( I) 
at what seasGns of the year the salt is to be applied ? 
(2) If the salt is to be applied to every tree in the 
plantation twice a year, whether the trees are attacked 
or not ? (3) Is it any use applying the salt to attacked 
trees?— Yours faithfully, iSlG.VlA. 
COMFORT FOR PLANTERS: FINE COFFEE 
SAMPLES. 
Dear Sir,— The annexed will show that Ceylon 
coffee can hold its own against the world. 
The proprietors of Stockholm, I imagine, echo the 
wish of the Loudon agents that, there was more of the 
coffee to place on the market, but with adverse geasons 
" what can do?" 
The coffee referred to was cured and shipped by 
Messrs. Sabonadiere & Co.— I am, yours faithfully, 
E. J. T. 
Messrs. Runciman & Smith, London agents for 
Stockholm Estate, write to this effect:— We have 
pleasure in forwarding account sales of the last ship- 
ment of Stockholm coffee and congratulate the pro- 
prietors on the very favorable results realized. There 
was a regular scramble in the Lane for the Stockholm 
coffee which was certainly a very fine sample and fetched 
extreme prices in the present state of the market, as 
under : — 
1 c 1 barrel H3s 
9 c 1 1 99s 6d 
2 c 1 t 107s 6d 
1 c It 67s 
CINCHONA COCCINEA. 
Badulla, 10th March 18S2. 
Dear Sir, — I was glad to see, by your paper of the 
4th inst., that Mr. J. E. Howard tiie quinologist, is 
anxious to get s.me of the leaves, flowers, fruit, &c, 
of the cinchona tree, I wrote to you about on the 
30th Nov. last, and which 1 then suggested was 0. 
coccinea, as it answered to the plate of this variety 
in the " Illustrated Nueo. Quinology." At your sug- 
gestion, I then sent Dr. Trimen some specimens of 
the leaves, flowers, fruit, &c. These got dried and 
mouldy, as Dr. Trimen was away at the time. In 
his reply he said :— 
"From what I can make of them they differ from 
C. succirubra in several particulars, but I am not pre- 
. pared to give any "particular name. Very little is 
known about C. coccinea beyond what can be gathered 
from Howard's plate ; from which your plant differs in 
the smooth leaf- veins and more obtuse leaves. Unless 
our ' Robusta ' turns out to be it, there is no reason 
to suppose that C. coccinea has ever been brought 
from South America to the East " On my sending 
Dr. Trimen a second lot of specimens, he replied : — 
" I have examined your cinchona, but I am not 
able to give you a name for it. I shall place it near 
succirubra and think it probably one of the forms of 
C. ovatce, but without authentic specimens for com- 
parison it is not possible to name with any kind of 
certainty. There are points o£ resemblance to 0. 
cordifoiia, and. also, as you suggested, to 0. coccinea. I 
have not seen quite that form before. From your 
account of its source, however, there should be others 
in the Badulla district." 
In desorrbing the tree to Dr. Trimen, I think I said 
it was from 9 to 10 years of ;ige, and originally came 
from Hakgalla. It answers Dr. Trimen's description 
of 0. cordifoiia (Owen's Manual) in some respects, but 
grows to even a greater length than O. sucirubra* 
I send you by today's post some of the leaves, flowers, 
* It is quite unlike the Robusta varieties, Pubescens 
Uritusinga, &c, &c, og which we have great numbers 
now in the District,— B. G. 
and fruit of this tree, and shall be glad if you would 
forward them to Mr. Howard at my expense. Should 
he require a little of the bark for analysis, I shall be 
glad to send him some of that as well. — Yours truly, 
B. G. 
[The leaves resemble those of C. succirubra, but are 
smaller and more elegantly veined with pink. They 
.will be duly forwarded- — Ed.] 
COFFEE CULTIVATION AND MANURING 
EXPERIMENTS :-6 Cwt. PER ACRE OF CROP 
4 YEARS RUNNING, IN CEYLON. 
Maria estate, Wattagama. 
Dear Sir, — I have carefully looked over Mr. Bosan- 
quet's letter of February 1st, in your Tropical Agri- 
culturist of March 1st, about his manuring experiments, 
for which he deserves the thanks of all planters. 
He will excuse me for a few remarks I now make on 
the subject of manuring. 
No. I. — Coffee from eight to Dine'years old, which was 
never manured, if the earth is well forked, the trees will 
certainly throw out wood and give good crop for one year 
without manure, and may even do fairly well the second 
year, but, if not manured in the second year, in the t^ird 
year the trees will be exhausted. 
No. 2.— Cattle manure 25 lb. with \ lb. bone dust. 
This is no doubt well, when you can afford to give so 
much cattle manure to each tree, but cattle manure is 
expensive and I have found that 2 to 31b. cattle manure 
with \ Vo. of a mixture (ashes, lime, fish and poonac) 
mixed with soil in holes or trenches one year, and the 
next year a forking with a top-dressing of \ measure 
lime and ashes mixed to a tree, has given me in a cert- 
ain field about 15 cwt. per acre in 1880 and 12 cwt. per 
acre in 1881. I have this year holed it again and ap- 
plied the first mixture and the trees promise again a 
good crop. There was a fair blossom out on the 4th 
and 5th instant, which has set well, ai.d lots of spike 
showing. Whenever there is any sign of leaf-disease 
I at once apply country lime* (from a lime kiln close 
to this estate) and wood ashes both over and under the 
trees, and have always been able to kill some and 
drive away the rest.. 
As regards the other mixture, I would suggest putting 
some cattle manure with all, even if only 1 lb. a 
tree. These are some of my experiments at an eleva- 
tion from 2,000 to 3,000 feet.— Yours faithfully, 
J. HOLLOWAY. 
P. S.— I am glad to add another year, this now being 
the fourth year of this estate having given its 6 cwt. 
per acre on coffee in bearing, and parts of the estate 
promise to make up for another fair average during 
the coming crop. 
GOLD IN CEYLON. 
Colombo, 11th March 1882. 
Dear Sir, — With reference to a paragraph re gold in 
Ceylon, I beg to state that each successive find of aurifer- 
ous quartz is not the most promising. The order of 
merit, so far as lam aware, for auriferous reefs is, Ram- 
boda, Hewaheta ; Rangala. The quartz on Castlerea is 
not at all of a very promising description, the majority 
of boulders 1 eing full of ovities with decayed felspar. 
No misperfcel was found there. No nugget was ever 
found in Ramboda, but only gold in fine grains. 
ALEX. C. DIXON. 
ANOTHER CHAMPION SUCCIRUBRA TREE. 
Gampola, 11th March 1882. 
Dear Sir, — I measured a succirubra tree on Gam- 
paha. Udapusselluwa, which is 5 feet 6 inches in girth 
near the ground. This is 12 inches more than the 
Glencairn tree, The tree is about 17 years old ; it had 
