"Step after step the ladder is ascended. " George Rarbert, Jacula, Prudcnltm. 
Agriculture iss the most healthful, most useful, and most noble e mployment of man '— \VA)iui.\(jTON 
TUB 
TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST : 
(ESTABLISHED ISSI.) 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF IMFORMATIOM FOR PLANTERS 
OF 
TEA, CACAO, COFFEE, PALMS, RUBBER, CINCHONA, SUGAiJ, 
FIBRES, COTTON, TOBACCO, SPIOES, 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 ^/ic '* Geylon Observer," "Ceylon Handbook and Directory," " Pioneers of the 
Planting Enterprise," Planting Manuals, "Ceylon in 1903 " (Illustrated), &c. 
" It is both the duty and interest of every owner and cultivator of the soil to study the best mean* 
of rsndering that soil subservient to his own and the general wants of the community ; and he, who 
introduces, beneficially, a new and useful Seed, Plant or Shrub into his district, is a blessing and an 
honour to his country."— Sir J. Sinclaie. 
irOl4. XXII:— Containing Numbers I. to XII. : July, 1902, to June, 1903. 
CEYLON : A. M. & J. FERGUSON, COLOMBO. 
LONDON : 
JoMN Haddon &Co. ; Kb«an Paul, Trench, Trubnek & Co., Ltd.; Luzac k Co, &e. 
MaDKAB : HiGGINBOTHAM & Co. CALCUTTA : ThACKER, SpINK & Co. 
Bombay: Tracker & Co., Ltd. Au.stralian Colonies: Gordon & Gotch. 
West Indies and Central America : C. H. Calderon, St. Thomas. 
Straits Settlements and Eastern Archipelago : John Little & Co., Singapore. 
Hongkong and Yokohoma : Kelly & Co, Java : Messus. John Prycb & Co. 
Batavia : G. Kolff & Co. 
/903. 
