422 
THF. TROPICAL AGF?!OULTURSST. [December i, 1890. 
The above Balance Sheet, to the best of our belief, 
coutaina a true account of the Capital and Liabilities, 
and of the ProiJerty and Assets of the Company. 
S. T, Kichmdnd, Daelet, Butler & Co., 
Auditor. Agents and Secretaries 
Colombo, 22nd October, 1890. 
T. North Christie, H. Whitham, C. S. Armstrong, 
W. W. Mitchell, V. A. Julius, — Directors. 
The Ceylon Planters’ American Tea Company, 
Limited. 
Statement of Profit and Loss made to 30th June> 
K. 
c. 
To Kent of I’rcmises at New York 
5,886 
UO 
Salaries ; -Assistants do 
1,000 
00 
Native Servants do 
1,984 
64 
Manager do 
3,010 
88 
Managing Director and the Agents 
and Secretaries 
2,291 
67 
8,377 
19 
Director’ Fees 
1,800 
00 
Advertisement Charges at New York 
3,093 
47 
Printing and Stationary do and Colombo ... 
1,760 
44 
Stamps and Telegrams do and Colombo ... 
427 
87 
Charges (including passage money and travelling 
expenses, Hotel bills, &c , Mr. Pineo and native 
servants) 
5,757 
47 
Preliminarv expenses 
936 
37 
A. Philip (for his services) ... 
861 
64 
Miscellaneous payments at New York ... 
2,498 
16 
E.xchange 
212 
92 
Total... 
31,636 
53 
Or. 
K. 
c. 
By transfer fees ... 
10 
00 
Interest ... ... ■ 
8 
24 
Profit on Tea sold 
2,469 
29 
,. on Coffee sold 
52 
05 
Balance 
29,096 
95 
Total... 
31,636 
53 
E. & 0. B. Colombo, 22nd October, 1890. 
Examined and found correct. S. T. Eichmond, 
Auditor. Darley, Butler & Co., Agents & Secretaries. 
Directors : — T. North Christie, H. Whitham, C. S. 
Armstrong, W. W. Mitchell and V. A, Julius. 
<8> 
HIGH TEICES FOE CEYLON AND 
INDIAN TEAS. 
f'Peripatetio Planter” writing to the Indian 
Planters' Gazette refers to the sale of the Hethersett 
golden tips at 30s 6d as follows : — 
Query, how many hundred pounds of decent Broken 
Orange Pekoe were reduced in appearance several pence 
per lb. by the abstraction of these 15 lb of their “ glory? ’ 
Hethersett is a garden of 232 acres under Tea, near 
Kandapola, in Ceylon, managed by Mr. H. Maoaudrew, 
for Mr. J. Macandrew, the Agents being Messrs. 
Whittall & Co., Colombo. This price is the highest by 
far, which has been known in recent years, and per- 
sonally I have no recollection of its ever having been 
approached by any British Grown Tea. Of course such 
Tea can only be made at a very great sacrifice; and 
is probably really only beneficial as an advertisement 
to get an estate’s name talked about and known ; which 
is no small advantage ; especially when original estate- 
packed packets are on sale in England, as in the case 
of many Coylon estates now-a-days. 
'J’he next feature for comment is the extraordinary 
invoice from the Panitola Estate of the Jokai (Assam) 
Tea Company, Limited, items from which invoice appear 
above. Four lines above 2s per lb is good enough in 
these times; but to he able to decline a bid of2s7J-d 
is an additional feature in Mr. Madden’s cap — and to 
realize Is 4d per lb for his Pekoe Souchong 1 when 
some are getting 8Id to lOJ a lb for their Broken Pekoe 
and even Broken Orange Pekoe, after such prices too, 
for his better riuaiitios which prove that he is not “under 
marking,” is phenomenal, simply. The Chairman of 
the Company told me with glee yesterday, that he had 
pot aeon such au array of prices for live years | It 
s worth adding, in accordance with what I said last 
week, that Panitola has Blackman Fans ; not that 1 
wish to imply for one moment, that these prices are 
due to that fact — but this much is safe to infer, they 
haven’t injured Mr. Madden’s splendid Tea. This in- 
voice, unlike the Hethersett bid for “ glory,” is Business 
with Honour, to paraphrase B. D. Earl of B. As regards 
the market of the week, the above prices are all the 
more remarkable, in that the market has shown a down 
grade tendency in some respects, and is decidedly 
weaker in the case of erdinary and inferior Pekoe 
Souchongs, which have declined Jd to -|d per lb and 
sell from 7id to 8gd. There was a decent ordinary 
demand, which would have done justice to more limited 
offerings, but the market was flooded, and there wss 
also an excessive number of Breaks which rather exceede d 
the physical powers of the Brokers to sample properly 
thereby leading to irregularity in prices . — Indian 
Planters' Gazette, Oct. 21st. 
♦ 
PLANTING SCIENTIFIC NOTES. 
The urns of all these plants enclose, before the 
opening of the operculum or cover, a limpid liquid 
slightly acid. When the operculum opens the liquid 
seems to putrefy, and the vestiges of insects are 
found in it. M. Dubois found that if the liquid was 
drawn from the still closed urn by means of a steri- 
lised pipette, it continued limpid for several months 
and when first drawn had no effect on coagulated 
albumen, even if heated to a temperature of 35deg. 
or 40deg- O. AVhen filtered at the end of several 
hours it contained no peptones. Nor were any micro- 
organisms found ill the pure liquid of the closed 
urns, or any trace of putrefaction. Only a Torula, 
similar to the yeast of beer, was noticed at times, 
but its jiresence and purpose there has not yet been 
fully examined. 
On the other hand, when the liquid was drawn 
from urns which had been open some litt'e time, 
and was still clear, it rapidly attacked the albumen 
(little tubes of white of egg) which became trans- 
parent and gelatinous, andj lost its angles. In some 
cases the liquid became putrefied. It was found 
to swarm with diverse micro-organisms, and after 
filtration gave some of the reactions of the peptones. 
Many of the open urns contained insects, hut in 
XM’Ocess of putrefaction, not of digestion. Fresh fibriue 
was not used in these experiments because it dissolves 
in certain liquids without there being a true digestion, 
and because it would have been cooked during the 
sterilisation. STor was cartilage used, because it would 
have been 2 iartially transformed into gelatine. 
M. Dubois concludes from his researches that the 
liquid of the Hejienthes does not contain a digestive 
ingredient like jiepsine, and that they are not 
carnivorous plants. The phenomenom of false digestion 
observed by Hooker was, without doubt, caused by 
tmero-organisms which had entered the urn from 
without, and were not secreted by the plant. 
Vegetation appears to be retreating on the high 
Alps. Mr. David Martin, a geological survejor, has 
observed that the rhododendron is not found above 
a height of 2,000 metres, whereas 20 years ago it 
flourished at 2,350 metres. Birch, pines, &c., disappear 
at an altitude of 1,800 metres, except in certain parts 
exposed to the moist winds of the north, where they 
reach 2,300 metres. Lower down, the vine, which 
formerly grew at Valgourdemar, an altitude of 1,050 
metres, is only seen to-day at a height of 85 0 metres. 
Poiilars are nearly all dead u^ion the crest of the hills. 
This retrogression of vegetation has also been 
observed in Siberia, and, among other places in Savoy 
and at the Grande Chartreuse. Mr. Martin thinks 
that owing to the disappearance of graciers the trees 
suffer from drought in summer, and extreme cold in 
winter, ag Inst which they are not sufficiently protected 
by the snow, 
Tho new explosive “ carbonite ” is giving satis- 
faction to coal miners. At a recent meeting of tho 
South Wales Institute of Engineers, Mr. W- Stewart 
