Sept. i, 1893.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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Draft on you at 7 days sight for Rl,441 06, fo 
whicb I ask yonr kind protection, leave a balance due 
to me of 5/ to be carried to a fresh accourit. I have 
tod«y Bent a cheque for £100 to Messrs. J. Lycos & Co. 
Limited, in terms of your agreement with them. If 
it be wished I can send full particulars of the tea 
purchased for Mea-rs. LyoLS & Co. I have fent them 
this week a further supply of 1 fhest aid 2 half chests. 
All the tea sent has been of excellent quality and it 
has I hear met with general approval as served in the 
cun at the Imperial Institute. I have sold the above- 
mentioned Draft to the National Bank of In'lia 
at 1-3 9-16th per rupee.— I am &c. (Signed) Wat. 
Maetin Leake, Secretary. 
Ceylon Association in account with 
Wm. Martin Leake. 
May 2nd 1893. 
By cash receive! from Messrs. 
.J. hyi'fsSc Co... .. 25 15 3 
Juno 7th. 
To pa-d Messrs. Clow Wilsin 
&Co. .. ... -'U 10 2 
June 20lh. 
Bv cash re elved fr m Me sr-. 
.1. Lyons & Co... ... 11 10 9 
July 5Ul. 
To paid Messrs. Gow Wilson 
& C-. ., .. 10 7 5 
July 7th. 
lo paid Me>srs. J. Lyons 
'& Co.... ..100 0 0 
To Bills bt I mis ai.d P. .«tage 0 2 6 
By proceeds of draft for Rl,4ti Oii 
at 1/3 S/16 ... •• 93 9 1 
By Baltucp.. .. .. 0 5 U 
1 
1.31 0 1 
£131 0 
July 81h ToEalmce £0 5 0 
E. & 0. E. 
London, 7th July 1.S93. 
Signed Wm. Martin Leake. 
BABK AND DRUG EEPORT, 
(From the Cliemist and Druygist.) 
London, July, 20th. 
ANNATTO — Two casVs bright and dryi.-h paste were 
bouKht in at and two i arr. Is s-eeda sold cheei ly 
without reserve (it paying charges, ac id ; 7 bag.-, clean 
leedswere b.'Ught in at I'd. „ , , „- „ij - ^ 
AKRLCA-NUT.s.— Of 135 h«RS offered, only Z-i sold— ■> at 
19s and 2u at the same price subject; t- r OQ bags yoo.i 
clean a b d of 178 6 i was refused, the parcel being 
boiigtit in at ais. , i ■ j 
Cardamoms —Over 20ii packnges of various kinds were 
offered, incl ding a goodly num er of fine white Mysore. 
There was comparatively little demaud lor theuj, and 
ultimately ooly h> out a half eold. Thepnncip .l prices 
obtained were : Fair bold whi'e Mysore 23 ,d to 23 
Vd (mainly subject); the finest Uts were bought in at 
Psto ts Sma'l to medium Oeyion Mysore, pale in c lour 
Is Gd to Is «l: duller la 4d ; some parcels of a hol.icr 
character Is Hd and is Bd ; spiils Is 3d. A fmr propor- 
tion of the Malabar met with dem md at Is to Is •'•d for 
small to medium, and Is Od to Is »d for bold, these 
beirg chiefly brown. v ,^ 
Ckoton-seed.— One case sold at 2ub subject. It was an 
old and poor-looking lot. 
London, July 36th. 
Cinchona.— Tuesday's bark-auctious bore off the palm 
in respect of insignificance, the quantity of bark offnred 
being barely one-1 urth of that shown at an average sale. 
There wer-' nine < ataloguea, which included :— 
Packages Packages 
Ceylon cinchona iil8 of which 13.3 were sold 
East Indian cinchona 40-1 ,, iO-l „ 
South Amerii an i arlc 266 „ ^■4'' „ 
878 73 ^ 
African or Java barks were not offered The assort- 
ment waa rather poor, and very little mteri st w as shown 
in the auction, one or two tiiina ib taiuiug from com- 
petilion altogether. Tlii> unit remains unchanged, at 
from 9-16th8 d. to Jd per U: lor ordinary and medium 
ualltie« 1 
The approximate quantities secured by tre prmc pal 
yers were : - 
Lb. 
Agents for the Mannheim and Amsterdam works 4R,834 
Agents for the Brunswick works ... ... 25,5!'9 
Agents for the Paris factory ... ... 25,185 
Agents for the Frankfort-o/Mala and Stuttgart 
works ... ... 8,260 
Aeents for the American and Italian works ... 1,908 
Messrs. Howard & Sena ... ... 9U0 
Sundry druggists .,. ... 25,479 
Total quantity sold 
Bought in ;or withdrawn 
Total quantity offered 
186.155 
30,910 
167,065 
Ceylon Cinchona.- Original— Bed : Dull to good bright 
qulUy stem and br nch chips id to IJd ; dull root 1 jd ; 
fair medium druBgists' quill 2Jd to 2Jd per lb. Grey : 
Dull woody stem chips l^d ; dull root IJd per lb. Yel- 
low : lair bright quilly stem chips 3Jd to 4d per lb. 
Renewed— Dull red stem and branch chips l|d per lb. 
Quinine. — The makers' quotations remain unchanged, as 
folio WB : — Howards, tins Is id to Is 2d; vials Is 2d to 
Is .'^d ; WhiflBus. tins is'; vials Is 2d; Brunswick, Mann- 
heim and Auerbach. tins lO^d ; Zimmer & Jobet, tins 
lid ; Fabrica Lomi^arda tins Ud; vials la Id ; Pelletier, 
vials Is s^d. There has been rather more demaud 
during the last week for second-hand quinine, and sales 
have been made of 3,U0O oz German bulk atsd, anrt25,0UU 
oz. ditto at 8Jd pero/. ; there are still further sellers at 
the latter price. 
VANILLA.— The following figures referto the yield of the 
Bourbon crop during the list twenty-four years:— 
Year. Kilos. Year. Kilos. Year. Kilos. 
1860-70.... 12,6. 4 '77-78 3a,077 '8.5-86. .. .57,073 
'70-71..,. 7,J62 '78-79.... i9,912 '86-87 48,519 
'71-72. ...13,780 '79-811... .44, 689 '87-88. .. .89,' 57 
'72-73.... 11,8 14 '8C-81 23,031 'r8-89. . . .52'217 
'73-74.... 9,8:4 '81-82. .. .'.i7,76t '89-90 48,C4» 
'74-7."^ 2o,E65 '82-83 21,095 '90-91 8.=i,647 
■7 -76 22,882 'a3-84 28,049 '91-92 9 -72:J 
'76-77 26,818 '81-85, .. .48,618 '92-93. .. .94,282 
RHEA (RAMIE) FIBRE. 
{Bcehmeria Nivea.) 
I hare received a prosptc'us of the Indian Hus- 
bai drv C mpany, Limited, which has fecnrfd 200 acres 
of suitible lend about 90 minutes' jonruey by rail from 
Calcutta and is in tr(aty for about 800 acres of land 
cb se 10 the above. 
The object of the Oompmy is to grow and manufac- 
ture ihea, fltx, ]ut-3 hemp and other products on a 
commercial ticale. 
" Rhea," it is stated in the prospectus, " is an 
indigenous pireniial plant propagated by roots, 
cuttings or suckers and yields in some plaoes, 
five cr ips in a jetr. Its fibre is placed in a pre- 
emireiit position by its inherent phy.-ical properties: 
fineness, loufetb, lu>tre, strength, liijhtnese, durability 
aiiH resistance to water, which favour its appli- 
cation to \arii us textile fabrics. It is already 
being converted in Europe into imita'ion silk 
fabric.?, handkerchiefs, neckerchiefs, ladies' sosrves, 
umbrel a ' and rarasol covers, waistcloth eto , 
etc. It stands a strong rival to the fiueit 
varieties of fl .x, and in canvas and sail cloth its 
superiority ov( r flax is undoubted. It admits ofadvan- 
tige' Ui aMiii xtiire with wool us well as pilk and tho 
' noils ' or the waste of the fibre, when cut into b nifths 
of 2 inches und mijed with Cotton in the willow 
machine, rtnder the yarn stronger and shining." 
Mr. J. Isomer Superintendent, Botanical Gardens 
Banga'ore, w rites to me that he Ims been sel'ing Rhea 
roots at a nominul charge of R25 per 1,000 and that he 
still has sev ral thousand in stock and could easily 
increase the nursery ftock enormously. 
In the ' Ke>v Bulletin,' Oct ber 1S92, it is stated 
that ' what little interest is at present bein? takon 
in extri.ctiiig R«mie fibre from Boehmeria nivea appears 
to be centred at Belfast." 
According to ' Indian Textile Industrie*,' Mnvemher 
1892, " the l3ank of France will have Iheir ne-« issue ol 
notes printed on paper made from it." — Jndiuri Fomltr . 
