Feb. 1, 1900.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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and Nuwara Eliya; while Wm. Smith declared 
all beyond the Lindula patanas and towards the 
Agras— where now are found some of the richest 
plantations in Ceylon — as only fit for hunting 
purposes I We need not say how large a part Sir, 
or as he was then Mr., Graeme Elphinstone had 
to do in "pioneering" beyond Smith's limits, or 
how ready he ever was to give a lielping hand to a 
poor neighbour, or even to become partner with a 
friend trying to get on the ladder of proprietor.ship. 
The career of the worthy Baronet as planter 
here, is but an epitome of many a similar ex- 
perience in Ceylon connected with the "rise 
and fall" of the Coffee enterprise. The hard 
hing in connection with Sir Graeme Elphinstone 
is that, while lie was one of the first to foresee 
what was coming and to pioneer with " tea," 
he was not allowed to reap the rewaid of 
his foresight ; and properties were taken away, 
even after being planted with the new product 
which, if they had been left in his hands, would 
have cleared all burdens, arid become splendidly re- 
munerative estates for the man who first planted tea. 
Still it may be said of Sir Grjeme Elphinstone 
that in Ceylon he did better than achieve success 
— he most fully deserved it. No man ever more 
So : a planter among a thousand — hard-working, 
never idle indeed, cheery and generous and a 
chief among good men. 
When the end of the Ceylon career came, 
and Sir Graeme had to return to England, he, 
for some time, interested himself in making 
Ceylon tea known and in the establishment of a 
London distributing business. In 1894 he was elec- 
ted Ceylon Planters' delegate for tea in America and 
was much pleased at the confidence placed in him 
— sending us a letter conveying his thanks to 
brother planters and fellow-colonists ; but other 
business in London and the country at the 
time prevented his actually going to America. 
After a period of rest in Cheshire, the old long- 
ing tor a useful and therefore planter's life in 
the tropics oveicame "Logic" and we have a letter 
before us dated " Straits of Malacca, ss, 'Kliedive', 
11th Dec, 1895," in which he stated the possi- 
bility of his settling down on Waterloo estate, 
Perak, of which he was part-proprietor. He 
had travelled out via Canada, Vancouver and Japan 
and the immediate purpose of his writing — charac- 
teristic of the man — was to enlist our sym- 
pathy on behalf of a young ship'd officer who 
had fractured his leg and of whom "Logic" 
had heard as lying in Colombo Hospital (although 
he had left for home before we got tlie letter 
and called). We do nob think Sir Grfeme has 
been home since 1895, so that he has now had 
another spell of well-nigh five years of tropica 
work and when last we heard from him he was 
going in for the culuvation of a variety of new pro. 
ducts, sending for all our Planting Manuals in order 
to refresh his recollections of what had been done 
in Ceylon. Here again, we may not be able to 
chronicle a brilliant success for Logic, but that he 
has done his part well, there can be no doubt ;— 
'lis not in mortals to command snccesa ; 
But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. 
It only remains now to notice the portraits 
presented with our present issue. That of Sir 
Grieme Elphinstone is good and characteristic 
and will give pleasure to his numerous friends. 
In the other we have a veritable "leaf from the 
past," for Sir James Elphinstone in the centre, 
in contrast with two of the youngest members, 
one on each side, is surrounded by the company 
assembled at the Kadienlena Harvest Home of J an., 
1870, reported above. The group may be said to be 
historic including many District pioneers like J. F. 
MacLeod, Wm. Smith, Humphrey Humphreys, 
John Tyndall, John Martin, "Colonel" Hood, 
"scientific" and genial Heelis, "Cheetah" Morri- 
son, Jas. Wight, John Stronach, Hugh or Wm. 
and James Bisset, Wm. Allan (Surveyor), F. 
Hudson (Purveyor),— while "Logic" and Arthur 
Sinclair kept in the background. This is one of the 
best photographs ever taken by Humphreys (who is 
among the few survivors, now a hearty British 
farmer) and well reproduced by an Aberdonian 
Firm. But of the great majority what can we siy, 
alas ! save in poor Charles Lamb's lines:— 
The old familiar faces — 
How some they have died, and some they have left us 
And some are taken from ua ; all are departed ; ' 
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. 
JADOO. 
(To the Editor, " Tropical Agriculturist") 
Exeter, 18th Jan., 1900. 
Deab Sir,— Our attention has been called to a 
reply that appeared in your issue of December 1st 
to a letter from a correspondent at Kandy, with 
reference to the use of Jadoo Fibre for straw- 
berries. Will you kindly permit us to say that it 
has been proved practically impossible to "wash 
out" the properties of Jadoo Fibre even when 
exposed to tropical rain. As to its use for straw- 
berries it is being taken up on a large scale for 
use with them in the open ground in Cornwall 
this year. And if your correspondent will apply 
to Mr. Batho of d'Hautier Gardens, St. Saviour's, 
Jersey, he will, we know, tell him that .''n 
enormous increase in crop has gained by him Isst 
year by using Jadoo for strawberries besuics 
getting a much better price for the Iruit in the 
Covent Garden Market than he did for what was 
NOT grown in Jadoo. 
With regard to what you say about Jadoo 
having proved a failure for use in nursery beds 
for Tea and Coffee, you will perhaps allow us. 
