"Step after step the ladder is ascended. "-George Herbert, Jaeula r.nidentian. 
"Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man."— WASHiiSGTON. 
THEE 
Tropical ^giiic 
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF INFORMATION FOR PLANTERS 
OF 
TEA, CACAO, COFFEE, PALMS, RUBBER, 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," dc. 
* "It is both the duty and nterest of every owner and cultivator of the soil to study the 
best means of rendering that soil subservient to his own and the fjeneral wants of tlie community ; 
and he, who introduces, beneficially, a new and useful Seed, Plant or Shtub into his district, is a 
blessing and an honour to his country."— Sir J. Sinclair. 
VOL. XYIII. 
[Containing Nxunbers I. to XII. : July. 1898, to June, 1899.] 
GEYLON: A. M. & J. FERGUSON, COLOMBO. 
LONDON : 
.John Haddon & Co. ; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.; Luzac dr Co. 
Madras : Higginbotham & Co. — Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co. 
Bombay : Thacker & Co., Ltd. — Australian Colonies : Gordon & Gotch. 
West Indies and Central America : C. H. Calderon, St Thomas. 
Straits Settlements and Eastern Archipelago :- John Little & Co., Singapore. 
Hongkong and Yokohama Kelly & Co. Java: — Messrs. John Pryce & Co. ' 
Batavia, G. Kolpp k Co. ' 
MDCCCXCIX. 
&c. 
