Supplement to tils <tay's Issye. 
"Step after step Uie iadder la asoended " - Seorge Herbert, Jatuia Prudenium. 
▲ffrlculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man. "— Washinston. 
THE! 
TROPICAL Ai 
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF INFORMATION FOR PLANTERS 
TEA, CACAO, COFFEE, PALMS, RUBBER, CINCHONA, SUGAR, 
FIBRES, 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, East and West Africa, West Indies, South and Central 
America, CaliforniR, Southern States, and throughout Great Britain. 
EDITED BY 
0//A«" Ceylon Obsekver," "Ceylon Handbook and Directory," "Pioneers of the 
Planting Enterprise," Planting Manuals, " Ceylon in 1893 " (Illustrated), &c. 
"It is both the duty aad interest •£ every owner and cultivator of the soil to study the best meaas 
of rendering that soil subserviamt to his own aad the general wants of the community ; and he, who 
introduces, beneficially, a new aad useful Seed, Plant or Shrub into his digtrict, is a blessing and aa 
honour to his country."— SiE J. Sinclair. 
VOr.. XXI j-Containing Numbers I. to XII. : July, 1901, to June, 1902, 
CEYLON : A. M. & J. FERGUSON. COLOMBO. 
LONDON : 
John HiiDDON & Co. ; Kk«an Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. ; Luzac & Co., &g 
Madras : Higginbotham & Co. Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co. 
Bombay : Thacker & Co., Ltd. Australian Colonies : Gordon & Gotch. 
West Indies and Central America: C. H. Caldkron, St. Thomas, 
Straits Settlements and Eastern Archipelago : John Little & Co., Singapore. 
Hongkong and Yokohama : Kelly & Co. Java: Messrs. Johx Pryce <^ Co. 
Batavia : G. Kolff & Co, 
1902. 
