'upplement to this day's issrlc. 
"Step after step the ladder is ascended, "-George Herbert, Jacida Pmdcntum, 
" Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most nobis employment of man."— Washington. 
(ESTABLISHED saai.) 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF INFORMATION FOR PLANTERS 
OF 
TEA, CACAO, COFFEE, PALMS, RUBBER, CINCHONA, SUGAR, 
FIBRES, COTTON, TOBACCO, SPICES, CAMPHOR, RICE, 
AND OTHER PRODUCTS* SUITED FOR CULTIVATION IN THE TROPICS: 
Circulating in India, Ceylon, Burma, Straits, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Northern Australia, 
Queensland, Fiji, Mauritius, Natal, East and West Africa, West Indies, South and Central 
America, California, Southern States, and throughout Great Britain. 
EDITED BY 
of the "Ceylon Observer," "Ceylon Handbook and Dibegtory," djc. 
"It is bo;h the duly and interest of every owner and cultivator of the soil to study the 
best means of rendering; tliat soil subservient to his own and the general wants of the community ; 
and he, who intioiluces, beneficially, a new and useful Seed, Plant or Shrub into his district, is a 
blessing and an honoui- to his country." — Sir J. Sinclair. 
[Containing Numbers I. to XII. : July, 1900, to June, 1901.] 
CEYLON: A. M. & J. FERGUSON, COLOMBO. 
LONDON : 
John Haddon & Co. ; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. ; Luzac &, Co., &c 
Madras : Higginbotham & Co. Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co. 
Bombay : Thacker & Co., Ltd. Australian Colonies ; Gordon & Gotch. 
West Indies and Central America : C. H. Calderon, St. Thomas. 
Straits Settlements and Eastern Archii'elago : John Little & Co., Singapore. 
Hongkong and Yokohama : Kelly & Go. Java : Messrs. John Pryce & Co. 
Batavia : G. Kolfe & Co. 
1901, 
