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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST 
[Jan. i, 189 
sentation was made, no concession whateve 
could be obtained. We fancy that the main 
feature of the complaint now received from 
Ceylon is dependent for its foundation on the 
practice above named. It seems to me that, in a 
greater or lesser degree, both buyer and seller musl 
suffer from tbis. Probably the former, could alter- 
ation be obtained, would rejoice about as greatly 
as the latter would. It was my intention to have 
sought the views of Mr. John Roberts on this 
subject, but it occurred to me that I had ob- 
tained these when the first action was taken, and 
that the explanation now obtained covered all 
the ground upon which the recent complaints re- 
marked upon by your contemporary rested. 
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" LIPTON "—A CACAO PLANTER. 
PURCHASE OF KARANDAGALLA ESTATE IN 
DUMBARA FROM MR. H. J. VOLLAR. 
We learn that Mr. Lipton lias just bought a 
fine cacao estate in Dumbara, and intends pushing 
another of Ceylon's products all be knows. W hat 
an enterprising man he is, and what a lucky man 
too ! He buys a tea estate, and gets a magni- 
ficent property like Danibatenne, he goes in for 
coffee, and just when everybody hints the old 
king is dying, he gets wonderful crops from hi.-, 
fine Haputale estates; and now, having decided 
to "go in" for cacao growing, proceeds straight 
to the very centre of the cacao districts, and 
before you know where you are, picks up the 
choicest property in the Island. We are told by 
those who have seen it that Karandagalla (160 
acres fully planted and in bearing) " is the Very 
best cacao estate, in the very best cacao district, 
in the very best cacao growing country in the 
world." Greater praise cannot be given, and we 
congratulate Mr. Lipton on his purchase, and 
his usual good fortune in Ceylon. 
"LIPTON" IN THE COCOA TRADE. 
In the above paragraph we state that Mr. Lip- 
ton has just acquired Karandagalla Estate in 
Dumbara from Mr. Vollar of Pallekelly. We 
therefore made it our business to inquire of 
Mr. Duplock what Mr. Lipton's intentions were 
with regard to this product. We learn that, 
probably even by now, certainly in a few weeks' 
time, the magic words "Lipton in the cocoa 
trade," will reseund throughout the United 
Kingdom, to be echoed doubtless shortly over 
the whole world. Arrangements have been 
made for conducting this department on the 
same complete and elaborate scale that every- 
thing that Mr. Lipton undertakes is planned. 
Extensive premises have been secured, and 
the most expensive and perfect machi- 
nery has been laid down. It is intended 
to push the sale of every cocoa comes- 
tible for all it is worth, and we have little 
doubt that in a short time ' ' Lipton's cocoa and 
chocolate" will obtain the same world-wide 
popularity that his famous teas have. Cocoa 
essence, chocolate, cocoa and milk, chocolate 
creams, are among the many things Mr. Lipton 
will manufacture and seeing that, he has 
without question obtained some of the finest 
cocoa land in Ceylon, there can be no doubt 
that the quality of his productions will be of 
the highest. 
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Pioneers of The Planting Entebprise.— The _ pro- 
prietors of the Tropical Agriculturist deserve credit for 
their enterprise. No planter's bungalow ought to be 
without it, and the price is rnost reasonable,— Cor. 
PLANTING AND PLANTERS' ENEMIES 
IN HAWAII. 
The following is an extract from a letter sent 
to us by Mr. R. V. Webster referring to his ex- 
perience after reaching Honolulu from San 
Francisco : — 
BED SPIDER AND OKEEN BUO. 
Shortly after our arrival I had the pleasure of 
meeting the Hon. Mr. Marsden (Inspector of the 
Agricultural and Forestry Department) from whom 
I gained some valuable information as to the most 
effective way of exterminating the red-spider and 
green-bug. The treatment is very different to any 
1 have heard of in Ceylon. Instead of going 
round with a gang of coolies at early dawn to 
sprinkle sulphur on the diseased leaves, aa I well 
remember doing on Kellicwattie Estate in the 
year I8d7. all that is necessary for this remedy i« 
to obtain a few lady-birds in a glass jar (for red- 
spider the Scymnus variety is the best) and place ti 
in one of the trees where the pest is most nume- 
rous ; in a short time you will be astonished at the 
rate these lady- birds increase and spread over the 
entire plantation, and still more astonishing is the 
manner in which they devour the pest that at one 
time was 60 numerous. On my arrival in Australia 
I will try and procure a few specimens of the 
Scymnus, lady-bird, and if successful will forward them 
to Dr. Trimen. Mr. Marsden told me ouly a few 
years back, the orange groves in California were 
attacked with a pest similar to our green-bug and 
were it not for the lady-birds introduced by Mr. 
Kbbele * they would in "a few years have lost all 
their valuable orange groves. 
TEA AND COFFEE IN HAWAII. 
Later in the day I had a pleasunt walk with Mr. 
May who is interested in the Hawaiian Tea and 
Coffee Company, started with the object of growing 
tea and coffee ; the latter ought to do well, but aa 
I proved to Mr. May, with labour at the price they 
have to pay, it would be impossible for them 
to do any good with tea. Before sailing the Ha- 
waiian band came down on the pier and gave us 
sqme very delightful music, as we moved away. I 
was much surprised to hear them play our National 
Anthem followed by their own. Had they played the 
American anthem I would uot have been surprised 
as the "Almeda" is an American ship flying the 
stars and stripes. 
♦ 
TEA SWEEPINGS— CAFFEIN— AND THE 
NEED FOR CHECKING THE SALE OF 
IMPURE TEAS. 
(From a correspondent.) 
London, Dec. 7. 
The ultimatum sent in by the Tea Dealers' As- 
sociation to the clearing-house, probably will have 
the effect of bringing the Wharves (who desire to 
send their tea to Germany, so much to the detri- 
ment of the interests of the tea-dealers, the tea- 
brokers and also the tea producers both in Ceylon 
and India,) to see that the time has now come when 
they will have to act honourably, and conform to the 
Port Order, by giving over the tea to the Customs to 
be denatured in the same way as the other import- 
ant Wharves continue to do. 
The tea-brokers now fully appreciate that they act 
for principals (perhaps resident in this country) and 
indirectly for the producers in Ceylon and in India : 
they know that one or more members of their body, 
and, perhaps, the members of their Association, have 
knowingly received this tea, such as the " Assam Tea 
Sweepings'' from Hamburg, and perhaps know that 
it is being sold in Manchester and Liverpool under 
some other name. They consider that a wrong has 
* Mr. Kobele is at present in Ceylon, and has 
been visiting Dr. Trimen and Mr. E.E. Green 9I 
Pundaluoya.— Ed. T, A, 
