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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Jan. r, 1894. 
It should be taken into account lh«t the quantity of 
bark offered affords no iudioation of the amount of 
alkaloids ECcurcd by the purchaser. 
The followiuR prices were paid for undamaged bark : — 
Ceylon Cinchona.— Oripinal—lli-d stem and braucn 
chips, fair bright quilly IJd to l^d ; fair grey slcm chips 
ll^ per lb. Kalher auU Iteneweil red stem chips lijd 
per )b. 
East Indian Cinchona.— Original -Ordinary to gool 
bright quilly red Bt<-m aud branch chips Ijd to IQl; fair 
to nood bright shaving!? i'Jd to 2J 1 per lb. Fair grey 
chips '2^(1 per lb. O ^od qnilly yoUuw ntuni and branch chii/s 
3id to 4^d per lb. For a laihor better parcel, a bid of 
per lb. will be snbujitted. S. uud root ."i I ; bold 
mixed but darna;.'e l (Utio -Jid per li'. II ixori br gbl quilly 
chilis per ib. Keiiewod.— lied chips, ordinary to fair 
Ij d to 2d p r|lh. 
.Tava Cinchona.— Fair small yellow chips realised from 
Ifd to 3d per lb. 
South Ajieiucan Oi.vciiona.— Of 77 J-cwt. bales fair 
bright but ra'her irregular cultivated califaya qU'lls 4ij 
sold at ;^gd to .'^il per Ib. 
VuPKLA Babk.— The sales comprise! 619 bales (of about 
ISClb. i each) of this bark, imported between Ifc8: a'l i 
1880. The owuers dtclareil thao they couM not afford to 
hai e the bark re-wciphed (the List (-amples vreredr^»«ii 
n 1887 aid ]ftf(tj% hiic ihey offered to mat e an allowance 
3jf4 lb. per bale for losa in weight, a c miiromise which 
apprared acceptable to the buyers. With some difficulty 
1'89 bales were diFpoped of at )J1 toljd per lb. fur ordi- 
nary dusty quality, the bulk ot itbeir.g purchased by an 
Am erican firm. Tlie remainder wis limited at jjrlccs 
run ninjr from .50 to 80 per c nt above the bids made. 
There hns been an import of 'A! b.les Weit Afriean 
bark from LisVou this week The total quantity of sul- 
phate of quinine represented by th« bark offered on 
Wednesday was aboui 2,.5iio kilos, the Kast Indian bark 
alone containing about 1,900 kilos. Since the auction 
over 200 bales Cuprea and a x^arcel of K .sC lU'iau bark 
have been sold private ly. 
London, Nov. 23. 
Cinchona.— Among Ihe South American burk offered 
today were 81 bules nld Pituyu of lb>0-i: impori, of v/hich 
54 were sold. Common woody a: d dusty brought Ijd to 
14d, badly dumaged at Jd per lb. Niue bales tine bold 
sound, of TftUsaya character, smoky llivour, wtre well 
competed for, and realised Hjd per lb. Genuine flat 
Calisaya bark is exceedingly scarce, aud would x)rohably 
realise 2s per lb. for fine qrality. Two bales broken bright 
grey East ludian quill sold at Ud per lb,, a very liigh 
price. Onl3' a few lots i f South American Guayaiiuil bark 
were offered, but these did not find buyt fs. 
CocA-LKAVER.— Very neglected. Fur ^ bales pood briifht 
green Trnxillo cffered at auction only t^^d per lb. w.-.s 
bid. Another lot of II chests, dark bold leaves, of Hnanoeo 
.character, m'nlJy flavour from Ceylon, were bought in. 
CuBKBS. — A parcel of is bags, offered "without reserve,'' 
aud consisting of small partly shrivelled (aisty and 
stalky berries, sold at 54s to S.is per cwi., which marks 
a decline of abuut 7s Gd per cwt. Anoiher let of f jur 
bags very stalky smuU dark berries, however, which 
realised 6i's per cwt., showed much better value. For 
bold brown berries without stalk Cos per cwt. is asked. 
A considerable quantity is to be effered tomorrow morn- 
ing. The general aspect of the article seems to favour 
lower prices. 
Kola-nuts.— West Indian kolas, of which several 
parcels were offered today, were very strongly compet d 
for, and sold at an advance of about 2d per lb., f rir 
to bri(iht brown quality realising from 7d to Sjd per 
lb., aud fine brighti lO.Jd per lb. Abouc 10 packages were 
offered and sold. 
Quinine.— Scarcely any business has been done this 
week. The nomiual quotation remains 9jd per oz. for 
second-hand German bulk. 
Vanilla. — About 2(0 packages were offered, for which 
there was a good demand at steady prices for short, 
aud rather better rates for fine pods. Fine S to 8^ inches 
brought 149 ; good chocolate 6 to 7 J inches. 8s to 9s ; 
ditto, short lengths, from 4s to 7s tid ; and foxy to com- 
mon, from 3s 9d down to Is 3J per lb. 
CONGO EUBBEE, 
The report of the Belgian Upper Oongo Trading 
Company, presetted at the General meeting of the 
sharehoiderB ju Brussels the other day, bhows a gross 
profit on the AlrioBB undeitakings for the financial 
ye»r 1892, of £54,116. Afier writing off against rpnl 
property and river vtssels iu Afric", » sum of i:8,000, 
£4,000 tor inturanfe, and providing for various expcnsi s, 
there regained a net profit ot £28,153, out of wliich 
dividends of 6 per cent, on the preterence s!.ares, 
and 4 per cent, on the ordinary shBns late been 
^eclaied, Tbe lej^ort stitee that the business of the 
compacy has grefttly eipauded. Tbe number of 
tra'MiiK Btiktknii tias increased from ciue in li^Hg, fiftfan 
in 1890, and scveuletii iu 1891, to tbiity-foar lk»t 
year, and new ouc-s are etll] being estabiiiti.ed, the 
totil in May this > ear being foitj-one. La'i yesr V»0 
tone of ivcry and 126 tons of rubber were recar*-(l, 
■ii against 47 tons ivory and 26 ton* rubber in Ibyl. 
Tlie prisent year alfo promi'es fatiffactorj retuHs, 42 
to< 8 of i>'ory and 90 tons of rubber havitig been nhetdy 
collected at tbe tnd of il^y — Jndia Kuhber Jowml. 
FLOWERS AND I'EHll'.ME.S. 
While ordiuiry perfumes are obtained by toaking 
the flowers iu melted fat, tiie more delicate aud 
entitle oiies, such se the e of jtitniire, jonquil, and 
tuberose are eitractcd by l»yinj; tte flo»tri on tliiii 
U\ere of viax sprea l over irlaBS frames. Iu prucesa of 
tiu)e tbe gre .eu eocks up the dc'icate aeeut, aud fre«h 
flowers are rnppl'ed Qotil a cuffictent etreng;ih of 
per une is atttiie). A pound of thin i^e'ica'e rc^'ute'l 
wax repri senta tlie essoi co i f f om hiz lo > i ^ht pounds 
of flovrurs. ' Iu the pure ('entliii of a little bottle of 
perfume,' ssys Black an i H'/tili , ia au illustrated 
article deeoribiug the procf ss < f rcan'ifac^urL', ' lies 
t' e hoarded sweekness of perhaps a tboasauil 11 'tsomi'. 
♦ 
TEA AND TJtADK IX CiKllMANT. 
British traders have long been flattered in a 
dubious manner by German imitators of their wares. 
From imitation to misrepresentation is an easy 
process, and the genius of the Teuton has been 
quite equal to the occasion. Aided aud abetted by 
the Fourth Estate, his latest development, as shown 
in a letter from a correspondent in another column, 
is the circulation of misstatements about the London 
tea trade, the magnitude of which has attracted 
envious attention in Germany. It seems that the 
consumption of tea in the I'atlierland is increasing 
largely, and a determined effort is being made to 
stop importations from England and to olta:n the 
buhiness direct. Apparently the first step towards 
this is to discount the quality of the English article, 
which is alleged to be adulterated in a manner that 
is not only impossible, but simply preposterous 
under the surveillance which the Customs and Inland 
Revenue authorities are bound to exerci-e over any- 
thing which i.s subject to duty. So large is the pro- 
duction of tea, aud so small the profit, that, etn-ca 
apart, the game of adulteration is not worth the 
candle. The Germans are such careful students of 
English newspapers, that we hop i our contem- 
poraries will take up the matter and expose the 
absurd misrepresentations to which our correspondent 
draws attention. There is nothing like carying the 
war in to the enemies camp. — Commerce, Nov. 8. 
PICKINGS WITH A LOCAL APPLICATION. 
The Kow Bulletin menlious that the skeds of Entada 
scaiidenn (the Sinhalese /'u^-we/j have been kt own ti 
have been picked up at Swausea Bay, iu tae Orkaeys, 
the Norwegian coast and ibe Azores. "There ia 
little doubt," says the Balletin, "iiiat in all these 
instances the seeds had come from tropical Aiupric* 
obi q itly across the Atlantic ; but the mo«t in- 
teresting point is that after floating for wt ek«, and 
may be months, in sea water they retain their ger- 
minating power. " The hard polished pericarp of 
Entada scandem would seem to be well aoapted to 
keeping the endocarp water tight. It i< quite com- 
mon at some seasons of (he year lo fin i the s^eds 
of Pus-ioel and the more or Ites decs? el fruits of 
"Kadurn" cast upon our fhores wi'h o'her dctr tas. 
Un^er tho title of " An Industry for Burope ans " tbe 
Indian Agriculturist h.is an article (Nov. 11th) on 
coC'iNDT PLANTixG, w'tb tho foUowing introduc inn : — 
" I am sure tliat tl is branch ot planting does not re- 
rece.ive half the attention it deseri'eii from Europeans 
in li d a. Yet in Ceylon it is a very favourite form of 
investment, and coconut topes in b-aung are eagerly 
sought after by bo'.h Europeans and ^f^ltivej. As an 
