<A MONTHLY. I>* 
2i> 
XXI 
COLOMBO, FEBRUARY 1st, 1902. 
No 8. 
PLANTING IN JAVA : 
IN 
SUPPLEMENTARY CULTURES 
BY-PRODUCTS. 
(Translated for the " Tropical Agriculturist.'"*) 
T is a pleasure to me to follow 
the honouriog invitation of 
the Sub-Committee of the 
"Allgaceer Sycdicaat voor 
Koffiecnltunr en andereberg 
cultures in Nederlandsch In- 
die" dated 12th June 8.c. in 
giving a lecture on Supplemen- 
tary Cultures. 
The oultivation of Cacao which in the Eastern 
Provinces of Java m^y still be considered a supple- 
mentary culture is vrith ine and ether planters in 
Central Java a principal culture; I shall, therefore, 
begin with cacao ; if I should have the occasion 
later on I shall treat successively of Liberian Coffee, 
nutmf g, raudoe ( ? ) with pepper, and the 
different kinds of caoutchouc, which 1 know. In 
1ST8 I became administrator of the factory at 
Djati Koenggo, and had for Superintendent Mr. N. ds 
Vicq de Cnmptich. Then already he recommended 
to the factory not to stop at one cultivation, but to 
grow also on their lands Liberian coffee, nutmeg, cacao, 
pepper and karet (?) trees. The factory did not follow 
his advice; they only ordered 5)000 nutmegs from 
Banda for Djati Roenggo, which I planted in 1879: 
I shall return to them later on. Djati RoenggOi h» 
said, with its 1,500 acres cin easily bear different 
cultivations, and he was right ; what he would have 
Btarted nearly a quarter of a century ago, is now 
done not only in Central Java but also in the Eastern 
Provinces. I thought this introduction necessary, as 
♦ From (he " Nkuwe Gids " ef Uth Vdober, 190t 
I wanted to give the honour to tny former chief) 
who again, about 1886, ordered a new kind of cacao, 
not being content to stick always to the same red 
Java cacao, which was cultivated here and there; 
whether he discovered then already the diseases in 
cacao tree and pods 1 do not know, for I did not 
see him again since 1885. Mr. Van Gogh, who 
was with me in 1898, had likewise small confidence 
in red Java cacao ; he spoke from experience of 
cacao estate* in Java and the rest of Nedeol, East 
India, which he had visited, and where the treel 
were suffering from the Helopeltis pest and the 
pods from a boring beetle, called Adela, I think. In 
1884 I planted 12,000 cacao trees, which remained 
good till 1895, and since 1888, when I became owner 
of Djati Roenggo, this estate was successively planted 
with red Java-cacao. From 1895 until today the two 
diseases mentioned above kept on spreading. 
In 1888 my brother brought me two little cacao 
plants which Mr. de Vicq ordered from Caracas, 
under the name of Caracas cacao. In '• der Tropen- 
pflanzer," No. 7, year V, you, will find mentioned » 
kind of cacao growing on the western shore of Ven«> 
zuela and called Caracas with splendid feeding pro- 
perties and very rich in fat ; further, cacaos from 
Guayaquil, Bahia, St. Domingo, Trinidad, Granada 
and Surinam with the same proportion of Theo- 
bromine. One of those little Caracas cacao plants 
died from rajap (?), the other grew luxuriantly and 
gave beautiful healthy pods, about the size of those 
from red Java cacao ; but the young pods were white 
and the ripe ones orange. 
In 1892 I made nurseries from the seeds and kepi 
this on till 1896, Then the mother tree died, bnt 
two Gjangkokans (3) remained, which were sent at my 
request through the Colonial Bank, one to Ngrangkah 
and another to one of the Eawi enterprises ; botlj 
trees are still alive, 
