"Step after step the ladder Is asoended. "— Geoi'ee Herbert, Ja^ulA Pnidentum. 
"Agriculture Is the most healthful, most useful, and most nohle employment of man. "— Washington, 
GRiCL 
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(ESTABLISHES! 1881.) 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF INFORMATION FOR PLANTERS 
OF 
TEA, CACAO, COFFI]E, PALMS. EUBBER, CINCHONA, SUGAR, 
RAMIE, 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, West Indies South and Central America, 
California, Southern States, and throughout Great Britain. 
\^ EDITED BY 
of the " Ceylon Observer, " " Ceylon Handbook and Directory, " etc. 
" It is both the duty and interest of every owner and cultivator of the soil to study the 
best means of rendering that soil subservient to bis own and the general wants of the community J 
and he, who introduces, beneficially, a new and useful Seal, Plant or Shrub into his distiict, is a 
blessing and an honour to his country."— SIR .T. Sinclair, 
[Containing Numbers I. to XII. : July, 1899, to June, 1800 ] 
CEYLON; A. M. & J. FERGUSON, COLOMBO. 
LOXDON : 
John Haddon & Co.; Kegan Paul, Trench, Tbubner & Co., Ltd.; Luzac & Co., &c. 
Madras : Higginbotham & Co. Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co. 
Bombay : Thacker & Co., Ltd. Australian Colonics : Gordon & Gotch. 
West Indies and Central America : C. H. Calderon, St. Thomas. 
Straits Settlements and Eastern Archipelago : John Litile & Co., Singapork 
Hongkong and Yokohama : Kelly & Co. Java : Messrs. John Pryce & Co, 
BaTAVIA : G. KOLFF & Co. 
1900. 
