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THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. [Aug. i, 1894. 
name of Maragogipe coffee, was introduced to the 
notice of planters by Mr. Thos. Christy, of 25 
Lime Street, who obtained it from Brazil just 
ten years ago. The Kew plant, which is growing in 
the great palm- house, is some 10 or 15 feet high, and 
has this year produced a good crop of fruit. It is a 
vigorous grower, producing leaves fully twice the size 
of those of Arabian coffee, and the fruits or cherries 
are quite an inch long, o« double the size of those of 
the old Arabiau sort. They are soft when ripe, re'd 
in colour, with a silky smooth surfaoe and a very 
small proportion of pulp. From the fact of the plant 
being a very vigorous grower, attaining a height of 8 
or 10 feet in three or lour years, aud producing largo 
cropsoffruitattbatage.it has bsen tstimated that 
the weight of coffee per acre must bo very muoh more 
than from the ordinary coffee-tree. Althoagh Mara- 
gogipe coffee has been grown experimentally 
in Cey'on, Java, Jamaica, aud Trinit'ad, no 
reports 6ecm to have reaohed Eew as to the 
results. It would appear, however, to have taken 
some hold in Ceylon fir a large quantity of eeed was 
shipped direct to Ceylon* from Brazil in 1884. It has 
also been cultivated since 18S7 in the botanic gardetK, 
Trinidad, while in Jamaica about a dozen plants 
were raised from seeds received in 1883, and tliese 
were distributed foi trinl amongst the leading planters 
in the Blue Mountain district during 1884 aud 1885. 
In the gardens of the Quoebsland Acclimatis ition 
Society a plant originally introduced from Kew bore 
heavy crops of seeds last year, from which a large 
stock of plants were to b raised for distribution this 
year, so that we may expect, before long, to hear of 
a gen r >1 demand among coffee plauters lor this new 
kind of coffee, aud ultimately to Bee it in our groceis' 
chops as a competitor with the far-famed Mocba. — 
Chemist and Druggist. 
DRUG REPORT. 
(From Chemist aud Druggist.) 
London, June 14tb. 
Cinchona.— Tuesday's bara-aucti.us were of moderate 
extent, the nix catalouges comprising the whole of the 
bark offered. The circumstunce that Che entire contri- 
bution of Ceylon to the cinehonu-uueuous consisted of 
7 packages, or about one-third o£ 1 per cent of the total 
offered, is an indication of the position of insignificance 
to which island has been reduced as a facur in the 
cinchona-market. The baric at auction ieprescnted an 
equivalent of about 12,000 lb. of sulphate of quinine 
The total quantity of bars included in the auctions was 
as follows :— 
Ceylon cinchona 
Bast Indian cinchona 
Java cinchona 
Cuprea barb 
7 o 
1918 
69 
327 
2381 
Pkgs. 
which 
7 were sold 
do 
1928 
do 
do 
46 
do 
do 
138 
do 
do 
2151 
do 
me tone tnroufinout me auouious vyao mu, 5""" 
barks were well competed for, the unit being from |-d 
to Id per lb. The following prices were paid for sound 
bark :— ■ . . „, 
Ceylon Cinchona.— Fair original Hybrid shavings. 3d ; 
small bright renewed Succirubra shavings 3Jd per lb. 
East Indian Cinchona.— The East Indian Lark included 
a considerable quant. ty of Officinalis quill bark from 
Southern Inaia (Migiri Hills.) ihere was also a l air pro- 
portion of gr<y and yellow chips among the Indian 
cinchona. 
Java L inchok a.— Ledger chifs ;?d; dull dusty root3|d 
good rich rootsgi per lb. 
Ctjpkua Bams.— Of <«7 bales cuprea, imported in 1882- 
81, 172 sold at prices ranging from ijd .to Ifd per lo. 
Healthy Coffee Seed and Where to Get it.— 
We hear that Mr. T. H.. Stephens, son of Mr. 
John Stephens, of Gampola, is importing Burmah 
coffee seed, which he tells us is supposed to be 
the true Mocha, is very prolific, ana is entirely 
free from leaf disease and other diseases. .Hy- 
brids of the Araoian and Liberian variety have 
been raised, we believe, and ought also to be very 
hardy and suitable for experiment in Ceylon. 
* We know of no special clearing or field of this 
coffee — who has got any of it in Ceylon r 1 — Ed. T, A. 
TEA AND SCANDAL. 
Camomile TtA (After E. A. Foe's ' Annabel Lee.*j 
1 
It was many aui maoy a year ago, 
In a cot by the Irish sea, 
A decoction I knew of, which you may know, 
liy the name of Camomile Tea . 
A stuff which was brewed ■* itli no other end 
Than to plague and be drunk by me. 
2 
I wis a child— a mere bit of a child — 
When I lived In that cot by the sea, 
hut I bated with hate which was more than hate. 
Thai horrible Camomile Tea 
A bate w>'ich was visiole. I have so donbt, 
To the eyes of my Aunt Ma gee. 
3 
And this is the reason, I happen to know 
Why -lie always was down on me, 
Whenever I hut the i<a-t Lualaly tilling 
A tumbler with Camomile Tea 
And drenching nic three times a day with the saint— 
The horriblest bore that could be — 
And shutting me up In my bedroom for hours 
With a tract and more Camomile Tea I 
4 
Even now, strange, it seems I have hilcoua dreams 
U( that horrible Camomile Tea! 
Of its taste when I think, I still shudder and shrink 
At the nauseous Camomile Tea I 
And I mute In amaze at that old woman's craze; 
Oh! the loathinK, the loa'hiug I felt in those days 
Wheu I lived in that cot by the sea. 
In that cot with my Aunt Magee ! 
[P««c/<a Almaorc, lo>3.] 
" Tliere is no nation an<] there are very few in- 
dividuals who do nut mike daily use of s me substance 
to which the term Stimulant or Narcotic mar be 
applied in strictest accordance w th what we know 
of the act on of drugs. Von B.bra (Xarkotiscften Gc- 
nussmitlel uud der Jfeusch) puts the matter rough y, 
but strikingly : — 
Coffee Leaves are taken in the form of mfueloo by 
2,0*10,0(10 of the world's inhabitants. 
Paraguay Tea is taken by 10,000,000. 
Cooa by te many. 
Chicory either pure or mixed with coffee by 
40,000,000. 
Coc i either as Chocjlate or io some other form 
by 50,000,000. 
Hasohisch is eaten and smoked by 300,000,000. 
Opium by 400,000,000. 
Chinese Tea is drunk by 500,000,000. 
Finally all the known nations of the world are 
addicted to the use of tobacco ichiefiy in the 
form of smoke, otherwise by tnuffitgand chewing. 
Professor Johnstone (Chemistry of Ccptmon Life) 
completes the picture thus drawn by an ingenions map 
iu which it is sufficiently shown that no considerable 
tract of the earth's surface is without some special 
indigenous narcotic plant, of which the natives freely 
avail themselves, not merely for medicinal purposes 
but for every day use." [Stimulants and Narcotics. 
Francis E. Anstie, m.d. 18b4 p. 14.] 
A Prophecy. 
When Mother Goose a Fly ia 
Beast Pig an Ounce of Tea. 
When daub'd with Paint the Sky is 
Then London, wo6 to thee ! 
[The Argus, 6th Oct. 1832.] 
" In the article of Tea a great saving may be made 
if the process of making it was altered. Make a 
tincture of tea by pouring boiling water on it in a 
metal pot. Le*. it stand twenty miuutes and put no 
more water in it than is necessary for the company 
to fill their cups a third or a half-full without the 
necessity of adding more water. Then when tea is 
to be served, fill each cup a third or half full accord- 
ing to the strength of the tincture, and fill the cups 
from an urn or kettle. By this mode the tea will 
always be hoc and equally strong to the end, and 
one tea-spoonfnl will be tound sufficient for three 
cupa for each person; whereas according to the pre- 
sent mode of making it, time times tbe quantity 
is often used. There are fourteen tea-spoonfuls in 
