January i, 1892.] THE TROPICAL AQRIOULTURIST. 
from the mountain itself, and are obtained fr^m 
trees one or two limidred years old. It is said that 
trees of this age emit a fragrance. The size of one 
of these trees is from twenty to fifty feet high, and 
four to five feet in circumference. Annatiiites, who 
go in search of these trees, usually carry provisions 
to last for two months. Owing to the enormous 
price the Chinese pay the trees are denuded of their 
bark and consequently die. 
CHwi Fa Kwc.i, so called because it comes from 
the Ching Fa mountain, is the best kind, and its 
cost is about 25 dollars an ounce. Chinese doctors 
say this kind of cinnamon is good for cui'ing and 
purging disease of the lunga and kidneys, iimam- 
mation of the eyes, convulsions in children, toothache, 
etc. When a piece has actually cured a dangerous 
disease, it is called Shan Kwei or God's cinnamon, 
and is held to be invaluable by the Chinese, and 
if procurable costs from fifty to one hundred times 
its weight in silver. - , •i-i 
Foe Kwci (bitter cinnamon) and Ye Ktoei (wild 
cinnamon) are also obtained from the same moun- 
tain. An infusion of the former is colourless and 
bitter, while that of the latter gives a sweet taste 
and imparts a dark red colour to the water. 
All the above kinds are very scarce. 
Nrjoi Ho Kwei.— A very good kind obtained from 
hilla close by the above named mountain. It is 
readily procurable at Chinese druggists' shops and 
costs from 5 to 7 dollars an oz. Chinese doctors 
generally prescribe this kind for sickness. 
Ko Shan Kwei— This is an inferior kind of cinna- 
mon, and is an article of trade ; cost 50 cents, to 3 
dollars a catty. 
All the samples sent to Mr. Holmes are strongest 
in flavour in the liber or endophloeum. 
The liber of this drug in fact agrees with Ceylon 
cinnamon. 
The remarks already made on the subject by va- 
rious authors may be here summarized. 
Wells Williams, in his Chinese Commercial Guide, 
under the head of " Chinese Imports," gives the 
following : — 
Oinnainmi (Jan K'wei). "A little is imported into 
the northern provinces where none of the cinnamon 
or cassia trees grow. Cochin china produces ■ both 
these plants, and the true cinnamon has long been 
sent thence to China both by vessels and travel- 
ling traders across the frontier." 
Still6 and Maisch (page 476), " A kind of Chinese 
or Saigon cinnamon of late occasionally met with 
is in more regular unscraped quills, yields a darker 
colored powder (than cassia), but has a very sweet 
and warm cinnamon taste. Its histological structure 
is very similar to Ceylon cinnamon." 
' Pharmacographia ' (pages 528-30), "China cinna- 
mon of 1870 comes still nearer to Ceylon cinnamon, 
except that it is coated. A transverse section of a 
quill not thicker than one millimetre exhibits the 
three layers described as characterizing that bark. 
The Bchlerenchymatoua ring is covered by a par- 
enchyma rich in oil ducts, so that it is obvious that 
the flavour of the drug could not be improved by 
scraping." 
The expedition of Lieut. Garnier for the explor- 
ation of Cochin China found cassia (?) growing wild 
in about north lat. 19°. Dr. Thorel also states that 
it grows in a wild state in the forests of Cochin 
China. Ford in his West River expedition, 1882, 
says C. Cassia was not met with anywhere in a 
wild state, nor could any native be found who knew 
where it did grow wild. 
Dnmoutior's ' Essai sur la Pharmacie Annamite' 
mentions both the bark of cinnamon and cassia. — 
J'luiniiacciiticat Jounutl. 
CanarysEed. — A peculiar feature of the pasl week 
hftB boon the inoreasod sales of oanaryseod, whioh 
is boooming a popular food for horaes and cattle, 
ns woU as for pheaannts and poultry. Prioes hava 
gone up. and now stand at ,S63 per 464 Iba. Some 
ol tlio liner sorts, (or which thoro ia a fanoy 
demand, si.'ll, bowevor, up to 5'2a.— London Timet, 
Nov. 17th. 
Destruction of Coconut Palms by Putre- 
factive Fermentation in Jamaica. — We have 
marked for the Tropical Agriculturist s report by 
Mr. Fawcett, the Jamaica Botanist, on an obaoure 
disease in cooonut palms. The remedies are 
fire applied to the trees, or a solution of sulphate 
of iron. 
Jamaica Cacao seems to be easily and 
plentifully grown but badly cured, while the market 
price is in proportion; From the Bulletin of the 
Jamaica Botanical Department we have marked tor 
the Tropical Agriculturist letters from Mr. D, 
Morris and Messrs. Wilson, Smithett & Co. ac- 
companying samples of well-cured cacao, in whioh 
Ceylon stands first beyond all compare : Aloowihara 
154b per cwfe. 
Opidm seems to be taking the pi s ee of tea in the 
Pokhien province. The Foochow Echo says :— Two 
tea-growers are we understand, planting poppies in 
the place of tea in the lower ranges of their tea 
plantations. If they meet with success, others 
will follow their example, and give up tea alto- 
gether. The Imperial Government with its heavy 
export duty and the local government with their 
likin and other squeezes, have, between them, 
effectually killed the once flourishing tea trade of 
this province. — China Mail, Deo. 16th. 
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