Supplement to this days issue.' 
COIMCniENGED IN 1881. 
" Step after step the ladder is ascended."— George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 
OPICAL SGBIC 
T 
1ST 
\ JJoDthlil I^ecoPd of Informatioii foi' piantei^^ 
OF 
TEA, CACAO, COFFEE, CINCHONA, SUGAR, COTTON, TOBACCO, 
PALMS, SPICES, RUBBER, RICE, 
AND OTHER PRODUCTS SI?1TBD FOR CULTIVATION IN THE TROPICS. 
vj. iFEi^^a-xjsoisr 
of the " Ceylon Observer,''^ &c. 
" It is both the duty ami interest of every owner and cultivator of the soil to study tile best 
means of rendering that soil subservient to his own and the general w ants of the cjniniunity ; 
atid he who introduces, benehcially, a now and useful Sccit, Plant, or Shrub into his district, 
is . a blessing and an honour to his country."— SlR J. SiNCLAlK. 
VOL XIII. 
[Containing Numbers I to XII. : July 1893 to June 1894 ] 
A. M. & J. FBRQUSON. 
LONDON : 
Messrs. John Haddon & Co.; Kboan Paul, Trubner & Co , Ltd. ; Luzac Co.; &c. 
Madras : Addison & Co. ; Calcutta : Thacickr, Spink iV: Co. ; 
BoMB.VY : Thaoker & Co., Ltd. ; Australian Colonics : Gordon & Gotch, 
MDCCCXCIV. 
