MaV I, 1894.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULtURIST. 
769 
To oonolade oar Author, notwithstandiug all h-s 
Encomium's of this E.colick, can be coutent to thiiife, 
we alight receive as miioli lieuefit from some Plants 
of onr own Growth : wcri^ People iudu3triou'i to seirch 
after t hem : such as Veronica Lingna Cervina Marr- 
hubium, Hepatica Cichoreum, eind some others which 
he tiamcs, 
Tlie Physicians of Tiinquin iti India do raifehtily 
admire the Herb Tka, wliicli comes ftom China and 
Japan; which latter country produces the best. It 
IS brought to them in Tia Pols close stopped to kaep 
out the Air. 
Wheu ihoy woiihl I'.sa it they boil a Quautiiy of 
Wiiter BCcordiDg to the proportion they iottud to 
use, aud wheu tho water seethB, they throw ik tm^ll 
Quantity into it, allowiug as maob aa they cau nip 
between their Thamb and Forefinger to a glasi. 
This they prescribe to be drank as hot as they emiuro 
it as being an excellent Ucmedy against the Head- 
ache, for the gravil, and for those that ara subject 
to the Grip])iuj{ of the Guts : but then they order a 
little Ginger to be put iuto the Water when it bulls. 
At Goa, Batavia, and in ail the Indian Faotoriee, tliere 
are none of the Em-opeaii.i, who do not spend above 
four or five Leaves a day : and they are oarjiul tj 
preserve tho boil'd Leaf for an eveuiug salad, with 
sugar. Vinegar, and Oy). Thut is accounted the best 
Tea, which colours the water greenest : bat ibat 
whiob makes the water look red, is little valu.d. In 
Japan, the King and gtcit Lords, who drink tea, 
drink only the Flowr, which is much more wholesom"", 
and ot a taste much more pleasing. But the price is 
mach different for ouo of our ordinary Beer 
Glasses is there worth a French Orowu. Tavernicr, of 
the Kingdom of Tunquin cap, i. 
In Japan there is a Plant called Tsia, it is a kiud 
of The or Tea; but the Plant is much more delic.ite 
and moi-e highly esteemed than that of. The PerBuns 
of Quality keep it very carefully in Earthen po!s 
nell slopped, that it may not t»ke Wind but tho 
Jappaneses prepare it quite otherwise than is done 
in Europe. For m-tead of infusing it into warm 
Water, they beat it as fimsll as Powder, and tnke 
of it 83 much ai will Ije on the point of a 
knife. And put it into a Dish of Porcclane or 
Earth, lull of seething Water, in which Ihcy btir it 
till the Water te ail green a:.d then drink it aa 
hot hs they c.»n oudure it. I", is excellent good af t' r 
a Delianch, it buing ctrtnin there is not anjtbiug that 
allays the V«pour8, and Seitlcs the Stomach ueiter 
than this Herli dots. The pots thuy make use of 
about This Kind of Drink are tha mutt precious of auy 
of their Household-aiuff, iu as much as it ia knowu, 
tb^t ther.i have l.ccu Tsiapot?, vvhich had cost be- 
tween ^iI and Seven Thousand Poiinda Sterling, 
Mandeislo's Tiav. into the Indies, v. 156. 
Tha J'crsians, Indians, Chinescs, and Japonneses, 
antigii to fiasuch extraordinary Qualities that imagin- 
ing it alono able to keep a LLau m constant Hialth, 
they are mre to treat such us come to visit them; 
with this Brink, lil all Honrs. Tho Quality it is (by 
ejp<rierice) found to hive, is, that it is a-tringeut, 
• nd that it consuttea supeifluous Humours, wh ch in- 
ciitnmodata the J3r<tin, and provoke Diowsiu' ss. — 
0/eartns's Aiuiassadars Trav. into Muse. Ptrs. and 
Tartar, p. 241. 
The /)it^/( are said to transjiort ihe DritdLoaves of 
sane into China, and under ti e nuiuo of /i'K;o/)t«« Tka, 
to barter It nilh the Chinescs for their lia. 
" In the I«land Cimbiibon there grows a free, whose 
Leave* fiilUu upon the Gr mud, do hhjVo ana creep. 
It hath Jjeaves like the Jlu/bcrrij 'D ee- Tl oy liavn on 
both sides ILat which I.iuhb liku two lilllo ftot; 
ptesied thiy yieid no Liquor. If you touch them tLey 
flje friiin you. One 01 thi ni kept 1 ight Jays in a 
DIeb, liv'd and movtd as oft as one touch'd it." — Jul. 
ScaliRi r, A'.rcmV, 112. A.M. FiinousoN. 
Pl,ANTl^tl IN bOL'Tll TKAVANCORE. 
Tea is only ninking v«ry slow | rogress thcrr, 
and ntteutioii seems lo be i<|ually dividoJ 
beti<et»u that product aud Liberiau cutfoe. Ihcivis 
some donbt as to which will pay t'le best here, t?» 
with its splendid y'elds of 10 to 15 ni'.uuds par acre, 
or the hardy Liberian with its ruddy gold-wiun ng 
crops. Pertonally I should prefer the tea, but then 
I am a tea-man and have never gone in for coffee. 
A'l mcst of the men in South Travancoro are old 
cctfce-pLmtf rf, they uatiirelly prefer Libnisn, which 
seems to be almost free from leaf-disease, while what 
Arabica there is still loft is dragging out a most 
miserable life. Strange tu cay there are still some who 
look askance at Liberian, though the elevation here 
suits it famonsly ; it grows very mpidly and boars 
crops almost as quickly as Arsbioa. The newer jat has 
two peculiarities, however, which old fogies don't 
like, one is its habit of blossoming and ripening 
all tho year round— much as Arabica does on the 
high elevation Nilgiri estates ; and another disad- 
vantage it possesses is that it requires special pulpers, 
as the cherry is so fearfully hard thnt the ordinary 
kind are no good whatever. For all that, Liberian ii 
ih'j coffee of the future, unless Brooke-Mockett'a ce«v 
Mysore Hybrid, with its 3 to 4 tons an acre crops, 
wi'l tarn out a success — aud whi re poor Arabica once 
stood are lar^ie tracts of abandoued land given over 
to Mother Nature to cover np and fertilize until 
wauttd again. 
Tho tea mostly planted up l ore is chief!; a medium 
Hybrid, which peenis perhaps scarct-ly tho most enit- 
able jat to plant as t^e e evatioii generally only 
varies from about 1,000 to l.oOU feat. Judging from 
the huiltby appearance f.ni rapid growth of •email 
piece ot hue young Mauipuri plants, it is, I think, 
very strange that mora of this kind is not planted. 
But then 1 am an oiithusiist for Mauipuri Indigenous, 
and bel evetl at it can't be beat. — S. of India Observer. 
HAM-BURii vs. AMSTERDAM AS A 
CINCHONA MARKET, 
The Ha obu'g merol ants nre a very energetic 
community, but oc>;tisioLaily their zeal outruns their 
d'tcretiou, and they expose themselves to an un- 
pleajant snub, such as is administered in this week's 
Indiscitu JlercHur lo a Hamburg wholesale drugs 
house by an Auistordam ciuohoua-broker. The 
Hamburg firm, it apjieare, h'^ve beau circularising the 
Java planters, pointing out to them the advantage 
whico, they alleged, Hamburg posaeessa over Ams- 
terdam as a port 10 wbica to cOLsign the Java 
ciiichoaa-bdrk. The chiet buyers of the article, the 
Hamburgers ^ay, arc in Germany, aud H»mbiug 
already posse ses an old-estat lished repu'ation aa a 
hurk-market in»emuch aa South Amorican l arks have 
been consigned there for years. The Amsterdsm 
broker, in hia rejoinder, shows that, as a central 
market for bujurs from Getm.ny, Frauce, the 
United States, and Eugland, Amstordam is very 
much better tiluutel ttiau Hamburg, that tue 
carriage of goods from the Du.ch ports by canal 
aud river is very much below tho cost of tranapori 
from Hamburg to the factorice, that bills upon 
Holland are far mora advantageously uegotiabla in 
Javii thin papt r on Hamburg would be, aud that tha 
freight-rato from Java to Holland is lower, He (h-n 
carries the war into the enemy's camp by quoting 
a letter from a German quiiiiue-manuiacturer, who 
writes " that he would luuoh prefer Ams'.erdam to 
Hamburg aa a bark-market esiiecmlly bicause cinchona 
is much better sampled and warchouted iu Atuaterdam 
tbau has ever been tho case iu Hamburg, and because 
buy era in tho Dutch market are cerlaia tj receive 
exactly wlist they are ehowu— a guarantLC which ia 
alte'gtther wanting in tho c^se of Hamburg." 'The 
Amsterdam brekor concludes by observing thnt it 
epeaka very little for the capacity ot tho Uuiiiburg 
oiuohona-dc»lers that they propose to c.tll lu tho aia 
of an oxpcrionced London broker lo do their sampliag; 
that fo r.ir as South American b»rk is contoruei", the 
owniTH in Hamburg alwuys rc-ship tlieir oonaigumeuts 
to London looauso they Btll to boltir advautiigo thtrr; 
and that liouth American bilN aro uuKoii«l>lol in 
l^ji don at (piitu 2 per ouut abovutbe iiauibuc(i putit). 
—Chciinst v.nd iJn^jtjint. 
