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THE TROPICAL 
AGIECULTURIST. [May 1, 1901. 
anoe with the Articles of Aasociation, retires from the 
Board at this time, and bsing eligible, offeva himself 
for re-election. Mr. J B Laurie, C.A., also offers him- 
self for re-election as Auditor. 
G W PAINE, Chairman. 
]6, Philpot Lane, London, K-C, 3rd Apdl, 1901. 
THE BALMORAL (CEYLON) ESTATES 
COMPANY, LTD.* 
Eeport.— To be presented at the Third Annual 
General Meeting of the Balmoral (Ceylou) Bstatea 
Company, Limited, to be held al the Offices of the 
Company, 12, Fenchurch Street, E.G., on Thursday, 
11th Acril, at 2'30 p.m. 
The Directors have the pleasure to submit the 
Balance Sheet and Accounts of the Company for the 
year ending 31st December, 1900, duly audited. 
The total yield of Tea was 563.556 lb. against 528,804 
lb. la^t year, being at the rate of 606 lb. per acre all 
round; the coat ot production, exclusive of Capital 
Expenditure, was 28 cents per lb free on boaid at 
Colombo, and the gross average price obtained was 
8-8'id per lb. against 9*17d per lb. last year — Sandring- 
hara Teas averaging 8-90d and Clyde.sdale 8'81d per lb. 
Exchange has averaged throughout the year Is 4^d 
against Is 4 19-64d last year. 
The Net Profit for the year 
amounts to ... £7,767 3 7 
And the Balance from last 
year to .. 1,152 14 5 
Making a total of . . 
The Directors have already 
paid out of this Dividends 
on the 6 per cent. Prefer- 
ence Shares for the year 
ending 31st Dec, 19)0 ... 
Interim Dividend on the 
Ordinary Shares of 5 per 
cent, free of Income Tax. . 
Income Tax 
And it is Proposed .— 
To pay a Dividend of 7 per 
cent, free of Income Tax 
on the Ordinary Shares, 
making 12 per cent, for the 
year 
And to carry forward the 
Balance of 
£8,919 18 0 
£1,800 0 0 
2,601 15 0 
152 16 8 
3,642 y 0 
722 17 4 
£8,919 18 0 
The Auditor, Mr. J. Hamilton Alston, offers himself 
for re-election. By Order of the Board, C. G. BOIS, 
London, 2nd April, 1901. Joint Secretary. 
SCHEDULE OF THE COMPANY'S ESTATES. 
Sandringham and 
Yarravale 
Balmoral and 
Clydesdale 
Acres 
Tea. 
Full 
Bearing 
Partial 
Bearing 
Not in 
Bearing 
526 
4 
402 
35 
1 
929 
35 
23 
d at 
Oil 
(M 
12 
170 
c3 
o 
543 
626 
182 1,169 
Rubber in N. E. Rhodesia.— The rubber 
district round the southern end of Lake Bang- 
■\veolo lias been larfjely devastated through the 
vandalism of the natives, carelessness in the 
method of gathering, and the wholesale de- 
struction of the plant in search of the root- 
rubber. On the Loanywe, near Molilo, Mr 
Highfleld, a former resident of Salisbury, is farm- 
ing and plantirg Brauiliaa mhhGt;— Chemist and 
pruggial, March 30. 
PLANTING NOTES. 
ExrR.'.CT!o:< ofCkudk India-Kubbep.. — Patent 
No. 990G, 1900. Date of i)|jlic;xtion, 29th May, 
19 JO. Accepted, 23ra February, ]9i)l. A L 
Arnaiid, .35 Rue de rArbaiste ; A V L Vemeuil, 
25 Rue Hiiuiboldt ; A M G Wehry, 16 Rue Raflfet ; 
and A (i Lebeuf, 4 Impasse Giradou — all in 
Paris. — Home paper. 
Malays busy with Gutta in Sae.\wak.— At 
Sadong, in Sarawak, Malays are unusually busy 
in collecting " Jelutong " gutta. In?tead_^of the 
usual wasteful method of felling the trees these 
Malays tap the bark about four feet from the 
ground. Two of their employers are the i^ole pos- 
ses^iors, at lei-st in that di.scrict, of a secret for 
reHning this " jelutong " gutta and producing a 
gutta ot high quality, for wliich th -y liorie to 
obtaiu large prices in Ksio^nporn.— Straits 'limes, 
April 17. 
Camphor Cultivation.— Having ourselves 
been moving for some time past to secure 
a fair trial of camphor cultivation in the 
island, we are interested to find in an Indian 
paper that in view of the increasing price of 
camphor a German firm has suggested India 
and Ceylon as suitaVile countries for cultiva- 
ting the camphor tree. The world's require- 
ments of camphor are estimated at 10,400,000 
lb. per annum ; of this, under the new ad- 
ministration, about 5,200,000 lb, will be sup- 
plied by Formosa, while about one-third of 
the whole will be exported from Japan, 
leaving a diminution in the exports, compared 
with 1898, of about ^,640,000 lb. 
Tea-growing in Carolina, United States. 
— We call attention to the interesting ac- 
count, given on page 787, of Dr. Shep- 
hard's attempt at tea culture near Charles- 
ton, by Mr. Henry Cottam, who did much to 
show him the proper mode of manufacture 
as well as of cultivation. It is a curious fact 
that, while Ceylon proprietors are lavishing 
their money to try and win the American and 
Russian markets for its teas, a Ceylon plan- 
ter should have started tea growing in 
Carolina on its right course, while another 
is at this moment trying to show the tea 
managers for Messrs. Popolf at Batoum the 
way " how to do it." 
BOUVARDIAS : of THE CINCHONA FAMILY.— It 
may interest, gardeners in this country to learn 
that Mr A C Rolt, of Kissengunj, has succeeded in 
growing these beautiful plants in his garden in 
Eastern Bengal. The genus is a native of Mexico, 
but several fine hybrids have been raised at home. 
The pUnts belong to the natural order Bubiacea: 
of the Cinchona family), and the flowers resemble 
those of the Ixora in character and form of in- 
florescence. In fact, a bunch of Bouvardia flow rs 
may be easily mistaken for a bunch of Ixora 
blooms. They are extremely difficult to grow on 
the plains of Lidia; and that Mr Rolt has succeed- 
ed in growing thsm says much for his skill as a 
gardener. He wi ites to us on 4th instant: — "My 
Bouvardias, which never flowered before, are just 
coming into bloom. They grow very strong with 
me, but have not hitherto flowered. This year, 
however, they are full of buds. Bouvardias on the 
plains of India are, I suppose, something quite 
new, " On the hills, and notably on the Nilgiris, 
these plants should grow and flower most luxuri- 
antly. — Indian Gardening and Planting^ 
April U. 
