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no longer stop at Henaratgoda station, and that the nearest resthouse is at Mirisweti, three miles 
from the Gax’den. By leaving Colombo, however, by the slow train at 6 A.M., it is possible to spend 
some three hours at the Garden and get back to Colombo before midday. 
4 . — Anurddhapura Gardeyi. 
We have had much difficulty this year in obtaining water for the Garden, the supply from 
Tissa tank being only occasionally available for us. Moreover, the small ijond in the Garden is 
so nearly on a level with the point in the ela from which our open channel is supplied, that, even 
when allowed to enter, water will scarcely flow. After consultation with the Public Works Officer, 
it has now been decided to deepen the pond, and to supply it from a point in the ela much closer to it, 
by a short sluice through the bank. It is hoped that this alteration — the cost of which can be met from 
the small Provincial vote annually placed at my disposal — will be effected early in the year, and 
that thus, being able to fill the pond periodically, we shall be able to tide over times of scarcity. 
The rainfall for 1889, however, 49’76 in., though rather below the average, was fairly well distributed, 
falling on no less than eighty-eight days. As elsewhere in the Island, April was an extraordinarily 
wet month, 10’73 in., falling on fifteen days, being registered. 
A portion of the Garden which was very rough has been levelled, the Arachchi’s bungalow 
thatched and repaired, and cooly lines partly built. No prison labour has been available for work in 
the Garden during the year, owing to all being engaged on the clearing and excavation of the ruins. 
I was able to purchase 200 loads of manure for the Garden this year, which was much needed. 
,5 . — Badulla Garden. 
Progress here is but slow ; want of labour, a very irregular supply of water, and the trespass 
of cattle are some of our principal hindrances. With regard to the first, it has been a subject of some 
surprise and disappointment to me that my frequent requests for the use of some of the large number 
of prisoners employed on public works in Badxilla have been met to the extent of only ten men for 
five days during the whole of the past year. I hope, however, that now certain large improvements 
in the town have been completed, more assistance in this way will be provided for the Garden. 
The conductor would be enabled to make considerably more jxrogress if a small number of pi-isoners 
were regularly told off for work here, and the practice steadily continued for some time. 
As regards the water supply, it is exixected that this will be provided for by means of a 
channel which is to be carried across the Garden for the supply of an artificial lake in the centre of 
the adjoining racecourse. In connection with this channel, it is intended to make a tank in the 
Garden, and I have the assurance that for this work prisoners will be allowed. 
A fairly good supply of manure is regulaidy received from the town. By its use many of 
the trees and shrubs are making good growth and beginning to give some shade to this very exposed 
piece of land. 
8 . — Notes on Economic Plants and Products. 
Tea . — It has been my custom in these annual reports to place on record the exports of the 
leading plantation ixroducts of the Colony, and make some comment upon them. The story, how- 
ever, from year to year is now of much the same character, the tea enterprise having so greatly 
overshadowed all others and engrossed so much attention, that there is less and less to report on 
other products. 
The export for the commercial year ending September, 1889, reached over 32| million pounds 
(32,516,682 lb.), nearly 12 million lb. more than in the previous twelve months. For the calendar 
year 1889 it amounted to 33,383,035 lb. The Australian Colonies took of this somewhat over 
1;^ million pound (1,134,156 lb.), a considerable increase over the year before, but still a very 
small proportion of the 24 million poimds annually consumed in those Colonies. 
The price of our tea in the London market has been subject to remarkable fluctuations 
during the yeai’, being very low in the middle, but more than recovering towards the end ; and the 
average for the whole year may be put at somewhat over llr/. per lb., which is very little less thair 
that of the year before. Bearing in mind the greatly increased quantity, this must be coirsidered 
a decidedly satisfactory position. 
Encouraging, too, is the general absence at present of any serious drawbacks to cultivation 
in the way of insect or fungus enemies. Green bug is troublesome in a few places, and at least 
one attack of Hclopeltis (“ Mosquito Blight”) has been recorded, but these ai-e of little account. It 
is, howevei-, most earnestly to be hoped that this present general immunity from any serioxis pests 
will not blind plantei’S to the necessity of providing against future possibilities by paying attention 
to other cultivations. 
Cinchona . — Tlie e.x]iort for Ceylon for the commercial year has been 10,498,487 lb., a further 
fall of over a million jioumls in the gradual lessening which has been going on since 1886. The 
