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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Nov. i, 1893. 
Name of Firm. 
Chai. Maokwood & Oo. .•• 
Leeohman & Oo. 
Aitken, Spence & Oo. 
W. D. Gibbon 
Lee, Hedges & Co. 
Alston, Scott & Co. in liquidation 
Lady de So\8a* 
FreudeOborg & Oo. 
A. Gxnkla; 
Lewis Brown & Co. 
T. C. Owen 
Saottish Ceylon Te» Oo. (D. Kerr) 
C*rKili & Co. 
T. N. Christie 
H. Whithsm 
H. A. Clarke 
Darley, Butler & Co. 
O. P. Hiylev & Co 
W. Law & Co. 
C. W. Horafall 
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THE TASMANIAN EXHIBITION. 
As we have already mentioned, the Gazttte 
contains the prospectus of the International Exhibi- 
tion of Industry Science and Art to be held at Hobart, 
Tasmania, in 1894-95 under Government patronage. 
In that document it is stated that the proposal has 
been taken up by the people of Tasmania and the 
adjacent colonies with such general approval that the 
necessary capital has been most readily subscribed. 
The City of Hobart is moat favourably situated. 
The Colony of Tasmania has a population of 
150,000, and with the neighbouring colonies the 
total population numbers about 4,000,000 inhabi- 
tants. Launceston and other centres are 
within a few hours by rail. The Austrian Colonies 
are easy of access by steam, and tourists' routes to 
all places of interest radiate from Hobart. The 
objects of the Exhibition are :— To promote and 
foster Industry, Science, and Art, by inciting 
the inventive genius of our people to a 
further improvemet in Arts, and Manufactures 
as well as to stimulate commercial enterprise by 
inviting all nations to exhibit their products, both 
in the raw and finished state. Samples of the 
products for which this and the other Australasian 
Colonies have become famous will be exhi- 
bited with a view to increase the development 
of their natural resources. Similar and more varied 
exhibits may be expected from Great Britain, the 
Continent of Europe, America, India, Canada, the 
Cape, and other Colonies, to which the Government 
of Tasmania have forwarded an official invitation to 
grant their substantial support to the undertaking. 
A Fine Art Section virill form an important and 
attractive department of the exhibition. For the 
accommodation of the Art Treasures and Historical 
Objects a special block of the building will be reserved, 
and the most ample precautions will be taken for the 
security of valuable property lent for the purposes of 
the Exhibition. Two sections, viz., the Women's In- 
dustrial and the Artisan Section, will be particular 
features. Special arrangements will be made for the 
management of these. 
The site which has been granted by the Govern- 
ment for the Exhibition Buildings covers about eleven 
acres. It is one of exceptional beauty and convenience, 
being that portion of the Queen's Domain adjoining 
the Battery and the Central Railway Station. 
The Exhibition will be opened on the I5th day 
of November, 1894, and will continue open during 
the day and evening for a period of about six months. 
No goods will be received prior to the Ist of 
September, 1894, without the special permission of 
the Directors, nor after the 1st of November, but 
arrangementB may be made for motors, heavy 
machinery, boilers, or any Exhibit requiring under- 
building. 
The following are the headings of the classification 
of exhibits : — I. — Fine Arts (incladiog Photography, 
Engravings, etoj ; II.— Music and Musical Instru- 
ments ; III. — Education and Apparatos for PhysicaJ 
Training ; IV.— Furniture, Decoration, Fancy Goods ; 
v.— Pottery and Glass ; VL— Jewellery, Clocks. 
Watches, andother Time-keepers; VII. —Paper, Print- 
ing, Bookbinding, and Stationery; Vin. — Textile 
Fabrics, Leather. Indiarnbber Goods, Clothing ; IX.— 
Food, including Drinks; X.—Chuniistry, Apparatus 
and Processes. Philosophical Instruments; XI.— 
Electricity ; XII.— Gas and Lighting, other thsiD 
Electricity ; XIIL— Heating and Cooking Apparatus ; 
XIV. — Cutlery, Ironmongery, Firearms, Military 
Weapons ; XV — Boad Carnages, Bicycles, Tricycles. 
Ambulance ; XVI. — Machinery, Ma.chine Q ooU, 
Hydraulic Machines, and Machines for raisins heavy 
weights. Elements of Machines, Furnaces ; XVII. — 
Prime Movers, and means of distribnting their power, 
Railway plant ; XVIII.— Naval Architecture and 
Engineering ; XIX. — Civil Engineering, Construction, 
and Architecture, Sanitary Appliances, Aeronautics, 
etc. ; XX. — Mining and Metallurgy, Minerals, Quarry- 
ing, and Fuel. XXI. — Agriculture, Horticulture, 
Arboriculture ; XXII. — Fisheries ; XXIII.— Women's 
Industries; XXTV.- Artisan Section. 
Group 9 includes co£fee, chocolate, tea, and the 
apparatus used in the process of infasioQ. 
RUBBER AND COFFEE PLANTING IN MEXICO. 
From an Amerioan joarnal elsewhere we give some 
ouriouB panioalare of ooffee planting in Mexico 
under the shade of rubber trees, the kind used 
being the Panama (CaHilloa), which we believe 
Dr. Trimen does not conBider bo promiBiog ia 
Ceylon as Hevea, either as to growth or yield. 
In Mexico it iB aaid however, that no better 
Bhade has been found for coffee than this rubber, 
and it lookB as if oaoao also was to be planted 
along with it. In Dumbara, we believe, the Ceara 
Rubber tree hae not been a suooeBs as a shade 
tree for coffee or caoao. But what are we to say 
of the yield of coffee per bush in Mexico : 1 lb. 
a tree in Ceylon would mean 10 owt. per acre, 
a maximum yield seldom reached save in the early 
days ; but the Vera Oruz writer speaks of 9 lb. and 
even 3 lb. per tree — only bis trees (he does not 
specify the kind of coffee planted) are placed 
7^ to 9 feet apart instead of half that distance 
as is usually the case with Arabian coffee, so 
that after all the return per acre may not exceed 
the half-ton. We suppose the 100,000 coffee trees 
and 25,000 rubber trees cover about 250 acres, and 
this area is supposed to be fully planted and kept 
up (oi three years exclusive of Managers' salary 
for 12,200 dollars— say roughly £2,000, a good 
deal less perhaps if cheap silver in Mexican dollars 
is considered. At the rate we mention, the outlay 
would be £8 per acre (or let us put the dollars 
into rupee<< and reckon) BIOO per acre which 
would certainly be very moderate. The buying of 
plants is included, but nothing is said about ccst 
of land? We should like to have the opinion of 
our correspondent, Mr. W. J. Forsythe, who is 
now busy coffee-planting in Western Mexico, on 
this Vera Cruz " coftee-and-rubber" experiment. 
We have heard of an interesting rubber growing 
experiment on a tea plantation in the Ealutara 
district ; but although the price of rubber keeps 
up fairly well and the demand is a growing on^, 
our latest information as to the ecormous extent 
of the Amazonian country covered with indigenous 
rubber trees, and of the supplies which that region 
as well as Africa can send forth, is not specially 
enooaraging to oultivatore. 
