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THF TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST, 
[July i, 1890 . 
extra to their salaries a conamission on the net profits 
of the estate which they work, and that both superin- 
tendents and their assistants have been made share- 
holders in the company on easy terms. I trust, if 
times continue good, we may see our way to further 
bettor their position. By such like consideration for 
those who bear the burden and the heat of the day, 
we are only giving them what their valuable services 
entitle them to, and I am sure the confidence and 
reliance we have in our Ceylon staff, if we treat them 
well in the days of our prosperity, will not be misplaced 
should hard times ever fall upon us. (Applause.) 
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. 
Mr. J. L. Shand proposed the re-election of Mr. David 
Beid (the chairman) as a director of the company. 
Mr. Reid, he said, had been the great motive power 
of the company from its inception, and in its present 
successful position he did not think they could very well 
do without his services. He was very glad to hear the 
remarks that fell from the chairman and Mr. Ruther- 
ford about the improved position of the servants of 
the company. He had served in Ceylon himself for a 
good many years, and he knew that the way to secure 
good service was by being liberal masters. 
Mr. Donald Mackay seconded the resolution, which 
was agreed to wm, con. 
The Ohaieman, in returning thanks, said he gave a 
good deal of thought to the affairs of the company and it 
had always been a great pride and pleasure to be con- 
nected with it. He hoped that during his present term of 
office he would have as much pleasure iu serving the 
company, and that its prosperity would be as great 
as it bad been iu the past. (Applause). 
Mr. G, W. Paine moved that the remuneration of 
the directors fer the current year be £500, coupled 
with a vote of thanks for the great care they had 
bestowed on the affairs of the company. 
Mr. G. T. White seconded the motion, which was 
cordially adopted. 
Mr. David Reid acknowledged the compliment. 
The auditor, Mr. R. H. Miller, (of Messrs. Harper 
Brothers), was re-appointed on the motion of Mr. E. 
Peitchard, seconded by Mr. W. S. D. Monceieff. 
A vote of thanks to the chairman (proposed by Mr. 
L. F. Davies, and seconded by Mr, G. T. White) 
terminated the proceedings. — Money hEarlcct Review, 
May 3rd. 
TEA AND CACAO NORTH OF KANDY. 
Tea in the Knuokles has been doing very well. 
We have no cause to complain. I guess we will 
collar what we were behind last year and clap 
it into our estimate for this. 
Heard that Mr, R. Boustead got an offer of £6,000 
for Maria” : but would not take it — so much for 
cacao property. Don’t know if it is true, but that 
is what I was told.— Coj-. 
Tea Planting Notes feom India,— Sonari,^ May 
11th : — But little is doing in the way of leaf. There 
is a touch of red spider here and there, but nothing 
fo speak of. On the 6 th, we were visited by a hurri- 
cane, and on one garden the toa-house was partly 
unroofed. Darjeeling, May 18 th: — Have had some good 
rain within the last week, with a great change in 
temperature it having gone as low as 56*^ whereas last 
week it was 81°. ,Snow very low down the hills for 
the time of year. Raiufali to date;— 7 69” 1890; 
12'00” 1889. Blaugaldai, Blay 13th : — lulluenza has 
reached this, and many coolies are down with it; but 
now tho excessive heat has given place to genial raiu 
perhaps it may abate; let us hope so. From the apparent 
apathy of tlie Public Works Department, one would 
think that they had been down with Lagrippe for the 
last six months, as their portions of the road are still 
untouched, possibly waiting for the ruins . — Indian 
J'lanteri)’ Oaxettc, May 20t.b. 
CocoNDTB AND CoTioN: Hapitigam Eoeale, Bluy 19th, 
— For the first sixteen days of May we had only 
one shower of -10 of an inch, but on the morning 
of the 17th thunder was heard to grumble in the 
distance, and iu the course of the day and night 
•31 fell. On the 18th the olouds cleared off, and 
it appeared as if there was to be no more immedi- 
ately, but at three this morning, it opened afresh, 
and deposited 1-83 inch in three hours, and it looks 
like more, so I think I may safely write, that the 
big monsoon has fairly set in here. There is nothing 
new to report about the one product of the district, 
but the price of copra is somewhat unsteady, and 
will probably fall considerably when the largest gather- 
ing of the year (now nearly due) comes forward. — I 
hear of no experiments in cotton in the district, 
but one by the stationmaster of Mirigama, and I 
am conducting another, with less success than I 
desire hitherto. The climate is too uncertain to get 
the plants satisfactorily established, and they suffer 
awfully from a variety of inseots, that roll up and 
destroy the leaves, and bore into the pods. Great 
sickness in this neighbourhood and labour scarce. 
The Oeylon Cohjiissionee fob Russia. — Mr. 
Rogivue left Oeylon homeward-bound by the ‘‘Kaiser 
Wilhelm II ” on Monday the 12th instant. So 
far the Association has voted him £100 for his ex- 
penses, and £30 to be laid out in tea samples to be 
purchased in London after consultation with Mr. 
Martin Leake and others. Mr. Rogivue will travel 
via Genoa to London, and wheu in London will collect 
all the information possible regarding the Rus- 
sian tea trade, the amount of Oeylon tea shipped for 
London thither, and its characteristics, so as to sup- 
ply himself with samples only of such teas as may 
be most acceptable to Russian tastes. Leaving Lon- 
don thus fully equipped he will proceed direct to Mos- 
cow, which is the commercial capital of Russia, where 
Mr. Rogivue will interview all the buyers and im- 
porters, and, it a fair measure of success attends bis 
efi rts to push our teas upon their attention, he will 
probably go on to Odessa, Riga, and other centres. 
One thing is necessary — Mr. Rogivue should be fur- 
nished with a complete set of photographs shewing 
the process of tea manufacture in all its stages. These 
would prove of some help to him in his work, and 
would doubtlsas attract some attention from tea mer- 
chants. BIr. Rogivue is going on a mission of great 
importance to the colony, and we have no doubt the 
Tea Fund will treat him liberally, should a fair 
measure of success attend his efforts. — Local “ Times.” 
Trees foe Street Planting. — BIr. William 
Holmes, of the Frampton Park Nurseries, Hackney, 
who has bad con.siderable experience of planting in 
different parts of London, expresses the opinion 
that Planes and Poplars are much the best suited 
for street planting in cities and towns. He par- 
ticularly recommends Pojnilus canadansis nova, or 
Rumsey’s Egyptian Poplar, as more likely to enable 
the planter to surmount the many difficulties ex- 
perienced in the successful culture of trees in streets 
than auy other. He has witnessed many illustrations 
of the fact, that this form of the Poplar will live and 
grow for years in positions where Planes will scarcely 
last for a season. The space in front of the London 
Hospital at Whitechapel affords an illustration in point. 
Planes were planted and died; they were renewed, and 
again died ; when Mr. Holmes suggested the employ- 
ment of this Poplar, and several were planted, with 
the satisfactory result that they have now stood for six 
and eight years, making a really splendid growth. 
Again at Silvertou where some reclaimed land had 
been filled up to a depth of from 12 to 14 feet with 
London clay and soil, vitiated by an atmosphere charge 
with impurities from the many chemical and other 
works in the immediate neighbourhood, BIr. Holmes 
had an opptuuity of expermeutiug with trees, and 
he found that Poplars and Ailanthus glandulosus would 
alone endure; most of the others died the first season 
and thereminder, with very few exceptions, the second 
year. This is a valuable testimony, well worth the 
attention of planters,— Chronicle; 
