Nov. I, 1893.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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Messrs. Howard & Sons 
Agents for ihe Paris factory 
Agents for the Brunswick factory 
Sunory druggists 
Total quaniity of bark sold . 
Bought in or withdrawn 
18,636 
6,U0U 
4,7:j9 
1:^9,867 
kG,600 
Total quantity of bark offered ... 156,467 
The foUowins paces were pjid for eound bark : — 
Cetlun Cinchona.— OriKinal — Ked varietifS : Ordinary 
dusty to fair, p^ruy quilly slem and branch chips Id 10 
lid ; low dark, dusty chips ^d tu fd ; dull root Ifd per 
lb. Gray stem chips, pour and dull iifd per lb. 'l^ellow 
stem chips, mixed with root yjd to 3^ I ; small 
to fair .stem and branch chips Ig-d to 21 1 per lo. Hybrid 
dull chips ijd ; root Ijd per lb. Renewed: dull to good 
bright red cnips Igd to iJd per lb, Hybrid stem chips 
i^u to 2id per ID. 
WJisr AFBIOAN Cinchona.— Sin ty-six bales totalliug 
about B.oUo lb. cf Si.ccirubra baric in fair medium to 
tblo, partly irregular and tlightly damaged quill, tri.m St. 
Thomas, auld at from ajd to 3i per lb. to ihe eiiorlj 
druggists. 
At the Amsterdam auctions on October 5,4-1:31 packages 
bark contains 364 tui^s ci cinchona, will oe ofleied, ex- 
clusive of Government-grown barn. During the niunth ol 
July the exports of ciuchona fr^m Java were heavy viz., 
788,ai0 Amsterdam lb. against 2,ii,Wi, 1,164,16.5, 3!-6,51i;, 
nd 3u3,3a7 Amsterdam lb. lu the months of Jmyof the 
our proceeding years. 
(JOOA.— The American market is reportel to be glutted 
with best quality of bright green Truxllio leaves, wnich 
are offered in lou-iots ai the rate of 7Jd per lb. c.i.f., which 
is the lowest pnce on recoi'd for coca ; bola Huanoco leav, s 
ar ttrm at Is ad per lb. o.i.f. At the Amsta.da-u tluch-ua- 
sales, on October 5, a tase of about 17 lb. " Boiiviau 
coca," of direct import, belonging to the Cinchona-culti- 
vating Lompany. " CincLona," will be off' red. 
OOCAINE.— ihere has been a sudden reduction In price In 
the oraiids of alt makers but one H ydrochlotrate being now 
quoted I'y all of them at loa 6d per > z. lor luu tz. con- 
tracts, and 16s ttj for quautitlea between 20 and liO oz. 
it \i said that thli move i-> due tu the desire of the old 
manuka. turer-. lo put a stop, if pusslbie to the ct<mpetitlon 
of the yutngtr mater, who is beiievdd to havo been 
underselling them ; mat munufaoturer reports that be 
has not followed the present reduction, and thai his 
"tfBoiai" price is still its p r oz. It is a. so said that the 
more plent.lul arrivals of crude cocaine are the cause of 
the reduo l .u, 
ytJiNlHE.— A very considerable amount of busitess was 
done on oaturoay last and lu the eaily part if the present 
WBSK, ft Is 3. Id that ne.iily the w..oie of the pu.Lhases 
have been maue by a Urge Amerlo.in Arm. Ihey aLu>.Uut 
10 about zuu.iuu oz. t^,r which from ( Jd 10 t*d per > z. has 
been jaid. Since then, tne m.-rket nes ceased eft, aud 
loaay Is fl .t, at ad ptr oz.for tee^nd-hand Geiman bulk. 
THE PLANTING INDUSTRY OF CEYLON. 
^It may bo of some inte:est to reproduce the 
letter wtjich appeared iu the London Times with 
our latest plautiug statistics.— Ed. ^.4.1 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. 
Sir, — It may bo of interest to your readers to see 
the latest statistics rcpte-euting the posititin of the 
Ceylon p autiug enterprise. These have just been 
compiled with much laoour and pains, aud ^nalJzed 
for the different products cultivatea on tbeplBuiaiiouB 
ohitfly owned by Europeau colonists. The mam te- 
buUb are as follows, aud 1 offer a oomparisou with the 
leiucu similai ly compiled by me two years ago: — 
Ceylon Plantations in Tea, Coffee, Casao, 
CJiNCflONA, Cardamoms, ice. 
Kosulta lu Kobuits iu Differ- 
July, 1891. Aug. 1893. enoe. 
Aoies. Aores. Acres. 
Total area of pro- 
pexties... . . 687,832 724,806 Inc. 86,973 
Do ouhivated ., 3a3,953 353 236 Inc. 19,-.i82 
In tea ... ... 249,o86 273,ul5 Inc. 23,4b0 
Do coffee (Arabian).. 3S,759 3U,0h6 Deo. 8,6o3 
Do do (.Liioeriau)... l,t>33 2.438 Inc. 805 
Do cioao ... ... 12,90U 16,286 luo. 3,3o0 
Do minor products 
(various).. .. 18,000 22,000 Inc. 4,000 
Do Uuruauioms ... 4,955 4,7i3 Dec. 232 
Trees, Trees. Trees. 
Dec. 
Po OiaehoQ* trees ...9,175.000 6,909,000 2,166,000 
Of the plantation products more particularly culti- 
vated by the Ceyloneee, my eslimotes — the best avail- 
able — are briefly aa follows : — 
1891. 1893. Difference. 
Aires. Acri'P. Acres. 
530,000 555,000 26,000 
Palms — 
Coconuts... 
Palmyra, Kitnl, and 
Areca... 
Bark- 
Cinnamon 
135,000 15,0000 
40,000 
15,000 
40,000 
The coconut palms aud tea-planting induttties are 
the most flourishing at present. Coffee (Arabica) is 
bfcinR gradually super^edl^d by tea ; but it is hoped 
the Lilienaa variety uud the chocolate plant (cf.cao or 
" cocoa") will ba ttore wdely planted now. Cinchona 
and cinnamon do cot piy to plant at present low 
prices. — I am, sir, yours faithfully, 
JOHN FERGUSON of the Ceylon Observer 
and Tropical Agriculturist. 
Colombo, Aug. 31. 
A number of the metropolitan and other home 
journals repeat the infoimation, the Westminster 
Gazette and Manchester Examiner especially, taking 
over the full ioformation. 
TEA AND SCANDAL. 
Under this heading I purpose sending you from time 
to time, if agreeable to you and your readers, a 
few pickings of tea gathered from various sources, 
accompanied by a piece or two of chit-chat to wash 
them down with. 
A short time ago Mr. Arthur Sinclair mentioned 
having received a copy of " A Practical Treatise on 
the Analysis of Tea, Coffee and Cocoa," by J. A. 
Wanklyn, in which the author makes the astound- 
ing assertion that coffee is a bean which grows in 
a pod. The following criticism of the book appeared 
in the Brit, and For. Med. Chir. Review, October 
1875, p. 4U8 ;- " The author acknowledges in his 
preface that he has done little more than collected 
the materials which had been accumulated by the 
numerous chemists who have examined tea, coffee 
and cocoa. His own additions to our knowledge 
are very small, and from perfect acquaintance with 
the chemical literature of food analysis, he too 
often claims as original, methods and facts long 
previously known." 
Of another work, " Tea its Effects, Medicinal and 
Moral," by G. G. SiKmond, 1839, the following 
crushing remarks are made in the Bri. and ior. 
Med. 'Review, January 1839. " Dr. Sigmond's book 
has entirely disappointed us. Its title is attractive, 
its cohteuts the reverse. We eagerly sought for 
information, and, except in its extracts from other 
works, we found scarcely any. We were prepared 
for good souchong or pekoes, and all that was 
offer ed us was exceedingly weak Bohea. As in 
duty bound we drank the Bohea, but really cannot 
recommend to our readers a similar draught. There 
was scarcely a lump of sugar in the cup." 
You are in good oompauy in jour way of spelling 
•coconnt' ; for not only do I agree with you, bul 
Obarlea Kingsley, in "At Last" saye: — "Thetie Uooos, 
be it understood, ere probalily not indigenous," and 
" about thirty to fifty leet is the avuage heii^bt of 
these. Coco-palms." (p. 327-8.) Grant Ailen also in 
' The, Great Taboo' p. 105. saye: — "Biead-froitB asd 
cooouuta lay tossed in the wildest contusion oa the 
goronnd." 
Is 'cooly' a Chinese word ? In Peter Osbeok's 
Obina, 1751, I find ''The name we give to the Obintse 
ggrvantu is Kidlier ''(p. 2i3). and "'As soon aa some 
of the chests are packed by a number of Kidcers, or 
Ohiiese servante, they are pasted over with pape." 
(p. 253). 
In 'A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern -■Vrchi- 
pelago,' by H. O. Forbes, F.R.G.s, 1885, 1 bud two 
items referring to Ceylon: — On p. 8, while at Builen- 
zorg, be observes : " Iu trout ot the barracks »uother 
fine park, the Waterloo plaiu, is oruamouted by • 
tftll oijlumn lurtpounted by a rampant I19Q ViltQ 
