May i, 1895.] THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. 
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Hlotitiespondonce. 
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To the Editor. 
CEYLON TEA IN AMERICA. 
The Ceylon Importing Company, Importers of Pure 
Ceylon Tea of all Kinds, Davenport, Iowa, U.S.A., 
8th March 1895. 
Dear Sir, — We should be pleased to have you add 
our name to tho list of agencies for the sale of 
Ceylon tea which appears on the back page of your 
Overland Edition. We sell Ceylon tea and Ceylon 
tea only, pure and unblended with that of any other 
country, and it may prove beneficial to us to appear 
on the list. We have introduced Ceylon tea over a 
great deal of territory and have had pleasure in re- 
porting our work for the information of the repre- 
sentative of the Ceylon Planters' Association who 
paid us the honour of a visit on the 13th nit. We 
think your list might well be revised with regard to 
its American agencies. Thanking you in anticipation 
we are, respectfully, 
THE CEYLON IMPORTING COMPANY. 
[The name will be added to our list and we should 
be glad to get any further revision for America. — 
Ed. TA.] 
NEWS FROM BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 
Kaudy, 16th March. 
Dear Sir, — The following may be of interest to 
your readers. — Yours truly, \V. D. GIBBON. 
Extract from official letter received from British 
North Borneo. 
Sandakan, 21st Feb. 1895. 
We are looking forward to the arrival of young 
coffee planters from Ceylon. Even the natives are 
beginning to take to planting. Many here come to my 
garden where I have a few trees to see how they grow. 
Some chiefs expressed their surprise on seeing ripe, 
and half ripe cherries, and blossoms on the same tree. 
We have had a dry month up to date, and plan- 
ters have had a good time for burning the recently 
felled jungle. 
The overland telegraph construction is in progress 
from both sides. So is also the Sandakan Labok 
Sugat road, which will connect Marudu and Sanda- 
kan bays. 
These roads will open up our best land, and plan- 
ters should be in time to prospect. 
COCONUT GROWTH IN THE GODAVERI 
DISTRICT. 
Sir,— With reference to the inteiesting letter writ- 
ten by Mr. Lushington, District Forest Officer, Kistna, 
to the Tropical Agriculturist, and reproduced in the 
last issue of the Indian Agriculturist, I should like 
to be informed on one or two points re coconut 
growth in the Godaveri District : 
1. Two hundred nuts per annum is said to be a 
moderate estimate for good-fruiting trees in the Goda- 
veri district. CouldMr. Lushington give us the extent 
of a few of the largest coconut estates in this dis- 
trict and the average yield per acre. A yield of 
500 nuts per annum from special trees is nothing mar- 
vellous; and, perhaps, even the people in the Godaveri 
district will be inclined to be credulous when I tell 
them that I know a tree from which I have removed 
100 nuts (fit for harvesting) at one plucking \ 
2. Young trees are said to be invariably trans- 
planted three or four times. It will be most interest- 
ing to know at what ages these transplantations take 
place, or, at any rate, before what age is attained ?. 
What may not be expected from coconuts growing 
on "black cotton soil mixed with sand," which are 
" highly manured and frequently watered, and carefully 
tended by both males and females !"— Yours faith- 
fully, D. 
Wo nre promised a hoxfull of the Godaveri coconuts 
on condition of exchanging. We are doubtful if there 
are any huge plantations in tho Godaveri district, 
only small native gardens? Our correspondent will 
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have noted the remark of the Orissa missionary that 
the Ceylon palms — even at Mount Lavinia — looked 
like arecas as compaied with those he was accustomed 
to.— Ed. T.A.] 
CEYLON TEA IN AMERICA. 
Kandy, 22ntl March 1895. 
Silt, — At the request of the Chairman of the " Thirty 
Committee " I enclose for publication a letter from 
Mr. Thomas A. Cockburn. — I am, sir, yours faith- 
fully. A. PHILIP. Secretary, 
" Thirty Committee." 
c/o The San Francisco Lumber Co., N. W. Cor: 
Pine and Montgomery Sts., San Francisco. Califor- 
nia, U. S. A. 26th January 1895. 
A. Melville White, Esq., Madulkelle. Ceylon. 
Dear Sir, — I have much pleasure in informing you 
that I have succeeded in obtaining the sanction of 
the Committee of Awards of the late Californian 
Midwinter International Plxposition, to the several 
alteratio is in the list of awards given the Ceylon 
Court. It was only after the jurors had concluded 
their labours, that I discovered Mr. Foster had put 
liimself forward as the exhibitor of teas, coffee, carda- 
moms, &c, and to this I most strongly objected. I 
have been in correspondence with the British 
Commissioner, who has for some time been in 
London, and only yesterday was I finally able to 
gain the consent of the Committee to the desired 
alterations. 
The above address is my cousin's (who has 
kindly allowed me to use it,) and I find it much 
safer for my correspondence ; I am anxiously 
awaiting the arrival of the delegates and regret the 
long delay. 
I have to thank you for your kind mention of my 
name, in your letter of instructions to them. 
There is to be a large Exhibition held in Mon- 
treal, Canada in 1896, and a very fine one in Baltimore 
in 1897, second only to the grand one at Chicago. 
My idea is to have a permanent staff connected w ith 
the " American Scheme ", with four or six natives, 
a good pavilion, etc., characteristic of Ceylon, to be 
employed at these almost annually recurring Exhi- 
bitions, and when not so employed, the Pavilion 
could be stored away, and the natives employed in 
the principal grocery stores, giving tea demonstra- 
tions. Several of these stores would, I know, contri- 
bute largely towards the cost of such demonstra- 
tions. By this means, a large saving would be 
effected in cost of passages from and to Ceylon, 
purchase of necessaries for fitting up exhibits, such 
as tea urns, fixtures, etc, and with each suc- 
ceeding Exhibition, experience would mean economv 
and increased efficiency. In Ceylon a permanent 
standing Committee of the Planters' Asfocation 
and Chamber of Commerce combined, would have to 
collect and forward fresh exhibits for each Exhibi- 
tion, and perhaps a few extra natives for such large 
affairs as the Baltimore one is to be. 
I will be greatly obliged if you will kindly com- 
municate the list of awards to the Hon. Giles F. 
Walker, also the Hon. Sir J. J. Grinlinton from 
whom I received great assistance in my endeavours 
to make the Ceylon Exhibit a creditable one to the 
Island. Peihaps you may deem it advisable to pub 
lish this letter, for the benefit of the Planting Com- 
munity. 
List of Awards. 
1st, Gold Medal, Cardamoms, W. Waddon Martyn, 
To.iacombe Estate. 
1st, „ Tea, W. Pole Fletcher, Ardlaw and 
Wishford Estate. 
1st, „ ,, Ceylon Co-operative Tea Gardens 
Company, Colombo. 
2nd, Silver Medal, „ 
1st, Gold Medal, Coffee, T. J. Lipton, Dambatenne- 
Estate, 
1st, „ Ai tisticdecora tion of Ceylon Court. 
J. R. Foster 
1st, „ Carvings by Natives of Ceylon ,, 
3rd, Bronze Medal, Lace, &c, Thomas A. Cockburn. 
