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THE TROPICAL AaRICULTURIST. 
[Oct. 1, 1899. 
TRAVANCORE TEA SALES. 
Average 8'20d, August 25tli. 
Total, 
> Bro. Or.Pek 
a or Flowery 
^ Pekoe. 
Pekoe and 
Unassorted. 
Bro. Pekoe. 
Pekoe 
Sou. 
Broken and 
Souchong. 
Fannings, 
Dust, and 
Various. 
Garden. 
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5 
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Arnakal 
12B p 
15 
t6i 
49 
t6 
'45 
8 
5| 
1 
54 
8ic 
54 
Atchencoil 
n4-ie 
5g 
— 
— 
45-^e 
23t}c 
6.i 
— 
354c 
5s 
44c 
5i 
74c 
5i 
BA 
12 
5^ 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
1/. 
54 
— 
5i 
Balamore 
ISOic 
5i 
— 
— 
I25^c 
5i 
45ic 
- 
74c 
34c 
5^ 
Beldford 
160JC 
5| 
— 
— 
96^0 
544c 
6 
— 
54c 
6 
54c 
— 
BM 
6 
— 
— 
— 
— 
- 
— 
6 
54 
— 
5464 
Bon Accord 
90 p 
6i 
— 
— 
31 
31 
6S 
15 
54 
— 
— 
13ic 
5i64 
Braemore 
111 
6 
— 
— 
49 
6i 
34 
6i 
— 
— 
22 
5i 
6 
5^6 
Carady Goody 
107 p 
6 
54 
15 
51 
16 
6 
6 
5i 
— ■ 
— 
lC|c 
— 
Clierian Malay ... 
116 p 
6 
ll4p 
6 6| 
2 
5i 
— 
Corriniony 
175^0 
6i 
— 
— 
]23ic 
5| 
43Jc 
74 
— 
54e 
44c 
5 
Ellangv 
120 
52 
— 
— 
58 
5153 
27 
6i 
30 
5i 
— 
5' 
6 
Fairfield 
60 
6i 
21 
6J 
12 
6 
15 
6i 
6 
5f 
3 
54 
— 
3 
— 
Glenmary 
85 p 
6i 
38 
6^7 
24 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
23 p 
Glenniore 
130ic 
6. 
— 
74ic 
5i5J 
52ic 
6f 
— 
— 
34c 
54 
14c 
5 
Home 
]60ic 
5S 
— 
— 
lOOAc 
5*5$ 
50ic 
6 
— 
— 
54c 
54c 
5 
isiieia isiieKi... 
llz p 
5^ 
oy 
5m 
OD 
6i 
16 
54 
Naganially 
38 
5i 
8 
51 
22 
t54 
8 
54 
Pensliurst 
103 p 
6i 
63 p 
6|7i 
21 
6 
19 
5i 
Sealield 
109^c 
64 
73ic 
6 
344c 
n 
14c 
54 
14c 
South Trav. C Va 
182" 
6 
67 
6 6i 
86 
6 64 
29 
54 
" >> J 
77 
Ci 
41 
6 
29 
7 
54 
„ K 
128 
6 
51 
6 
42 
6i64 
25 
5f 
SIT Co Kuduwa K 
115 
65 
Hn 
29 
5f 
21 
5464 
Stagbrook 
110 p 
n 
33 p 
8 t8 
33 
'4 
18 
t6* 
26 
6i 
Travan T Coy. Pm 
65 
6i 
7 
H 
32 
6 
26 
7 
w 
16ic 
6f 
16^0 
6^ 
In these tables all packages are chests unless othe wise stated. §0 ior half-chests ; p for packages, prices 
marked thus f represent the highest offer in the room. In calculating these averages two half -cheats or four 
boxes are taken as equal in weight to one chest. 
THE TEA DRAFT DISPUTE, 
The Birmingham Grocers' Assoeiatiorf in their 
quarterly report presented at the meeting held on 
Aug. 22, after stating the conditions agreed to, 
.say;— 
The Committee trust that all importers who joined 
in the movement will also view the settlement in this 
light. The Committee desire to record that each sec- 
tion forming the joint committee has throughout the 
negotiations worked together in the fullest accord in 
a common cause, and where any interests of the one 
producing country may seem to have been at variance 
with that of the other, a mutuf l understanding of unity 
of action has been loyally adhered to. The new sys- 
tem of weighing teas cannot be put into force until 
it has received the sanction of H.M. Customs, and a 
petition will immediately be preferred by importers 
and buyers to have the alteration carried out. It is 
hoped that the new regulations may come into force 
on October 2, but until that date all teas will be sold 
on the old conditions. In v^ew of the recent cessation 
of sales and consequent accumulation of teas in Lon- 
don, the Committee urge upon importers the necessity 
for at once instructing their brokers to offer their teas 
under the rules of the Regulating Committee formed 
for the purpose of controlling the supplies to be offered 
for sale. The Committee congratulate the trade upon 
having resisted the demands of the tea associatioos. 
The result will have a far-reaching effect, as it is now 
highly improbable that dealers in other commodities 
will attempt to abolish the draft. While the dispute 
with the Indian and Ceylon Tea Associations was on 
hand it was rumoured that one of the members of the 
Birmingham Association, and a prominent tea dealer, 
had broken the compact in purchasing Indian and 
Ceylon teas on the market. Fortunately the Commit- 
tee were able to give an assurance that snch was not 
the case, and they thank the whole of the traders of 
the district for loyally supporting the trade associations 
in the course they adopted for the purpose of enforcing 
their demands. 
MONSTROUS ROSE IN PERADENIYA 
GARDENS, CEYLON. 
Monstrosity is of common occurrence in flowers 
as in other forms tf creation, and it does not 
f eem to effect any one class in particular. Sel- 
dom, however, is a mote curious and interesting 
freak seen tha i that in the case of a rose which 
Mr. J t'erdinandu,'^, chief clerk at Peradeniya Gar- 
dens, has discovered the other day in his compound. 
This is a well-formed rose flower with stalk, 
petals and sepals complete, growing out of the 
ovary of another rose which has shed its petals, 
who can say but this may be the origin of a new 
type specially suited for button-holes, as the neat 
knot (swollen ovary) at the base of the new deve- 
lopment seems to be an improvement on the old, 
fashioned spiny and slender stalk. — Oor. 
