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THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
[Dec.  r.  1S96. 
TEA  IN  AMERICA. 
New  York,  Oct.  U. 
At  last  there  are  signs  of  improvement  in  cle- 
niaml  and  so  marked  tliat  some  varities,  notali'.y 
low  grade  Formosas,  are  up  fully  ‘2c  per  pouml. 
There  is  no  improvement  to  note  in  price  for  green 
teas,  but  holders  of  Japan  are  much  more  conli- 
dent,  parcticularly  as  the  export  this  year  is  far 
below  last.  Ceylon  and  India  sorts  are  steady. 
Last  week  the  Montgomery  Auction  and  Com- 
mission Company  sold  6,(593  packages  of  tea,  as 
follows  : Moyune — 25  H^son  6^-  at  7c  : 421  Young 
Hyson,  at  27^c;  100  Imi)erial,  7atl9ic;  199 
Gunpowder,  144at34|c’  Pingsuey — 233  Imperial, 
9i  at  15c  ; 731  Gunpowder,  9 at  ‘23c.  Japan — 466 
Congou,  9 at  17c  ; 168  India  and  Orange  Pekoe, 
11  at  17c  ; 56  Capers,  Hat  16ic.  Oolong — 531 
Foochow,  6^  atSc  ; 3,163  Formosa,  13  at  36^c. 
To  day  at  noon  the  Montgomery  Auction  .and 
Commission  Company  will  sell  6,904  packages, 
viz;  671  packages  Moyune,  new  season's,  includ- 
ing attactive  chops  ; 8(36  boxes  I’ingsuey,  invoices 
of  seasons  1896  and  1897  ; 5 half-chests  Japan  ; 
901  half-chests  and  boxes  Congou,  including  new 
season’s,  and  comprising  fancy  Monings,  Ning 
Chows  and  desirable  Pekoes  and  Paklinas ; 24 
boxes  Capers  ; 1‘26  packages  India,  Java  and 
Ceylon,  including  fancy  grades  ; 423  half-chests 
F'oocliow ; 3,948  half-chests  and  boxes  Formosa, 
a very  attractive  offering,  incluJing  new  season’s, 
fancy  invoices  of  specially  selected  rich  ami 
spicy  summer  crop  and  invoices  of  desirable 
leaf,  heavy  drawing  teas. — American  Grocer, 
Get.  14. 
THE  WE-OYA  TEA  COMPANY,  LI3. 
At  a meeting  of  the  shareholders  of  the  above 
Company  held  on  Thursday,  19lh  Nov.  1896, 
the  following  were  present : — 
Directors:  Mr.  E.  J.  Young,  in  the  chair, 
Messrs.  E.  S.  Anderson  and  W.  J.  Smith. 
Messrs.  A.  Thomson,  W.  D.  Gibbon,  G. 
Vanderspar,  E.  H.  A.  Vanderspar,  Gordon  Pyper, 
H.  Creasy,  D.  Edwards,  and  J.  H.  Starey.  Mr, 
C.  J.  Donald  acted  .as  Secretary. 
The  following  were  represented  by  their  at- 
torneys Messrs.  C.  Young,  A.  luonison,  W. 
Cookes,  Major  G.  L.  Gwatkin,  G.  C.  M'alker, 
J.  MacLiesh,  J.  H.  John.ston,  J.  K.  Morrison, 
and  Mrs.  E.  C.  Ibaillie. 
The  folhnving  were  represented  by  proxies : — 
Messrs.  F.  G.  A.  Lane,  \V.  F.  R.  Reid,  W.  P. 
Metcalfe,  Mrs.  L.  C.  Stuart,  and  Mrs.  A.  S 
Donald. 
It  was  proposed  “ That  the  We-Oya  Tea 
Company,  Ld.,  l)e  wound  up  voluntarily,”— which 
was  carried  unanimously. 
THE  LATE  DR.  TRIMEN,  F.R.S, 
Dr.  Trimen’s  death  has  attracted  much  notice 
in  Encland.  One  correspondent  writes : — 
“ VVe  were,  as  you  may  suppose,  much  grieved 
to  hear  of  poor  Dr.  Trimen’s  death.  There  have 
been  several  very  a])preciative  notices  in  tlie 
London  pa])ers.  One  from  the  Gardcncr'x  Chro- 
nicle is  good  ; also  a notice  of  his  letirement 
from  the  Kcio  Hulletin  ol  July  or  August  last. 
There  will  be  a notice  of  his  ueaih  in  the 
November  Bulletin.’ 
The  notices  are  as  follows  : — 
nn.  IIENEY  TRIMEN. 
The  friends  and  acquaintances  of  Dr.  Henry  ■'I'riinen 
will  receive  the  news  of  his  death  with  deep  sorrow. 
His  modesty,  his  gentleness,  his  sympathy,  his  riglit- 
mindedness,  his  sweetness  of  disposition,  and  readi- 
ness to  lielp,  were  as  remarkable  as  his  extensive 
botanical  attainments.  Trimen  was  educated  for  the 
medical  profession,  and  took  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  .bedicineat  the  University  of  London.  .Ittacliing 
himself  particularly  to  tlje  study  of  botany,  he  became 
an  assistant  in  the  Botanical  Department  of  the 
British  Museum  ; and  on  the  death  of  our  old  cor- 
respondent, Dr.  Thwaites,  in  1882,  became  Director 
of  the  Roj'al  Botanic  Garden  at  Peradeniya,  Ceylon. 
That  position  he  filled  till  compelled  recently  by  ill- 
health  to  relinquish  bis  duties. 
Dr.  Trimen  first  attracted  attention  by  the  excel- 
lent Flora  of  Middlesex,  prepared  by  himself  in  con- 
junction with  Mr.  W.  Thiselton-Dyer,  the  present 
Director  of  the  Royal  Gardens,  Kew.  That  book  has 
formed  the  model  on  which  all  subsequent  county 
floras  have  been  prepared,  and  the  more  closely  they' 
have  approximated  to  it,  the  more  valuable  ha.s  been 
the  result. 
During  the  period  of  his  service  in  the  British 
Museum,  Trimen  was  associated  with  the  late  Pro- 
fessor Bentley  in  the  preparation  of  the  standard 
work  on  Medical  Botany,  and  also  edited  the  ,/ounuil 
of  Jlotanii,  in  which  periodical  appeared  several 
critical  notices  from  his  pen.  On  his  apiDointment 
to  the  directorship  of  the  beautiful  garden  at  Pera- 
deniya, Trimen  took  up  the  work  left  unfini.shed  by 
Thwaiios,  and  devoted  himself  to  the  preparation  of 
a complete  flora  of  the  island.  Three  parrs  of  the 
llandhool-  to  the  Flora  of  (,'njlon  have  appeared,  bring- 
ing the  work  down  to  the  Balanophoraceoe,  so  that 
the  work  is  well  advanced,  and  we  trust  material  may 
be  in  hand  for  its  com)iletion.  It  is  accompanied  by 
an  atlas  of  coloured  plates  of  the  more  interesting 
species.  Not  long  since  Trimen  visited  this  country 
to  seek  medical  assistance  when  his  friends  were 
shocked  at  his  condition,  and  entertained  fore- 
bodings which  the  event  has  only  too  surely  verified. 
Dr.  Trimeu  died  at  Peradeniya  on  16th  inst.,  in  his 
53rd  year. 
It  will  be  a matter  of  deep  regret  not  merely  to 
the  Government  of  the  colony,  which  he  has  served 
so  well,  but  also  to  the  botanical  world,  that  Dr. 
Trimen  was  obliged,  owing  to  the  serious  ill-health, 
to  retire  on  July  1st  last  fiom  the  post  of  Director 
of  the  Royal  Botanic  Gardens,  Peradeniya,  in  Geylon. 
Dr.  Tiiinen,  who  was  at  the  time  second  officer  in 
the  Botanical  Department  of  the  British  Museum, 
was  a^ipointed  on  the  recommendation  of  K,e\v  to 
succeed  the  late  Dr.  Thwaites  in  1879.  His  adminis- 
tration of  Peradeniya,  whether  from  a practical  or 
a scientific  point  of  view,  has  brought  it  into  the 
trout  rank  of  the  great  botanical  establishments  of 
the  world.  On  this  point  the  following  extract  may- 
be quoted  from  an  article  by  Dr.  Treub,  the  Director 
of  the  Great  Botanic  Garden  of  the  Dutch  Govern- 
ment at  Buitenzorg  in  Java.  This  article,  originally 
published  in  the  licrue  des  heux  Mondes  for  .January 
last,  has  been  translated  in  the  Smith aonian  llc/wrl 
issued  from  Washington. 
Extract  from  “A  Tropical  Botanic  Garden,”  by 
Dr.  Treub,  in  Smithsonian  Jlcport  for  1890,  p.  390: 
“The  Royal  Gaiden  of  Peradeniya,  in  the  island 
of  Ceylon,  was  found  in  1821.  Situated  near  Kandy, 
at  an  altitude  of  nearly  500  metres  [1,600  feet] 
having  a moist  and  hot  climate,  occupying  more 
than  60  hectares  [150  acres],  and  connected  as  it  is 
■with  the  port  of  Colombo  by  a railway,  the  garden 
of  Peradeniya  possesses  conditions  most  favourable 
in  every  respect.  For  many  years  it  was  under  the 
direction  of  Dr.  Thwaites,  a man  of  real  merit  but 
who  thought  a botanic  garden  in  a tropical  country 
should  be  in  some  manner  a reduced  copy  of  the 
virgin  forest.  This  system,  more  original  than  meri- 
torious, excludes  any  methodical  arrangement  of 
plants  an  1 necessarily  restiicts  tlie  number  of  speci- 
mens. Dr.  H.  Trimcn,  tbe  successor  of  Dr.  Thwaites 
as  soon  as  he  arrived  in  Ceylon,  realised  the  dis- 
advantages of  the  plan  of  his  predecos.sor.  To  dis- 
tribute over  an  area  of  60  hectares,  without  iinv 
order,  a great  number  of  plants,  for  the  most  jiart 
not  labelled,  was  to  fatally  embarrass  the  scientific 
use  of  the  rich  collections  that  had  been  brought 
