July i, 1897.] 
THE TROPICAL AGEICULTURIST. 
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been bulked (it necessary) have not been carried 
out in a great many cases and they must insist on 
this condition being faithfully observed. 
In the event of any parcel not having been bulked 
in the London Warehouse, a statement to the effect 
that it has been bulked in India or Ceylon and in- 
•pected in London should be inserted in the catalogue. 
I beg to request you will be good enough to bring 
this subject before your Committee, with the view 
of preventing any further inconvenience which now 
too frequently results from the irregularities men- 
tioned. 
I am &c., (Signed) W. Sedgwick, Hony. Secy. 
The Secretary, Tea Brokers’ Association of London. 
61 & 62 Gracechurch Street, London, April 9th. 
W. G. Price Esq , Secretary, Tea Brokers’ Asso- 
ciation of London. 
Dear Sir, — I have laid your letter of 26th March 
with its enclosure from the London Wholesale Tea 
Dealers’ Association before the Tea and Produce Com- 
mittee of this Association, and in reply I am to 
forward for your information and «hat of the wholesale 
Tea Dealers copy of a circular letter addressed to 
members of this Association and to other importers 
of Ceylon tea. My Committee hopes that there 
will be no further cause of complaint. 
I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, 
(Signed) W. Martin Leake, Secy. 
TEA IN RUSSIA. 
Kandy, 2nd June. 
Sir, —I enclose for publication a copy of the 
translation from a Russian newspaper received 
from Mr. Rogivue about Tea Cultivation in the 
Caucasus.— I am, sir, yours faithfully, 
A. PHILIP, Hon. Secy., C. P. A. 
Translation from the St. Petersburg Heralch 
16/28 February 1897. Forwarded by Mr. Rogivue’ 
TEA CULTIVATION IN THE CAUCASUS. 
There are about 140,000 tea-bushes in the plantation 
of the Crown Domains, of which 45,000 are from seed 
obtained from China through the commission which 
was sent there. 
The planting was most carefully done, and the 
growth of the bushes has been excellent. Experienced 
teagrowers fromChinaand Japan, as w’ell as auEnglish- 
man, who has been engaged in tea planting in India, 
were entrusted with the planting and treatment of 
the bushes. Next season’s planting is to be done 
with 200 lb. (Russian) or about 30 maunds seed from 
China. On K. S. Popow’s estates in Tschakra, Ka- 
prischosts and Ssudidawri about 20 Desjutins (about 
70 acres) have been opened in tea, and the number 
of bushes is estimated at about 70,000 of 1 to 3 
yeais’ growth and upwards. 
On A. A. Ssolowzow’s estates about 10,000 plants 
have been put out. Here the cultivation of tea was 
first introduced and some of the bushes which are 
from 7 to 9 years old have already given good crops. 
It is however to be regretted that the inhabitants 
of these districts do not take to the cultivation of 
tea, although it grows very well in Givira, Mine- 
teha and 8. W. Imeritia and many of the Agricul- 
tural Schools iu the town have well established bushes 
in their gardens. 
MYROBALAMS AND ARALU NUTS. 
Haputale, June 3. 
Dear Sir, —Being a reader of your Tropical 
Agriculturist, 1 notice in the market rates quoted of 
Ceylon produce, that Myrobalarns are 3s to 7s. Is. 
this per cwt. or per bushel? [Per cwt.— Ed. 2'.A] 
I should be very much obliged if you could give 
me any information regarding the licence you 
have to pay for gathering Araiii-nuts, and what 
merchants in Colombo and London purchase this 
product? — Yours faithfully, H.C.A. 
[Aralu-nuts are gathered chiefly in the Uva Pro- 
vince, and the Forest Department sells the rent or 
right of gathering yearly— in 1893 it fetched 
R4,O0O; 1895, Rl, 000 offered.— E U.] O.D. 
FLIGHT OF BUTTERFLIES NORTH OF 
KANDY. 
Oonoonagalla, Madulkele, 9th June. 
Dear Sir, — An immense flight of butterflies is 
passing due south today. The flies we usually 
see at end of April. I enclose several specimens. 
Sky- clear with light breeze from south-west. We 
had a little south-west wind with showers a few 
days ago ; but the weather today is more like 
the beginning of April than the 9th June. — 
Yours truly, M. H. THOMAS. 
[The butterflies are of a type common in such 
flights even on the sea-coast ; but Noveraber- 
December is the usual season for “the migration 
of butterflies ” — in the teeth of the north-east 
monsoon — and we cannot recall such an ex- 
perience as the present one in June? It will be 
seen that he flight is reported from Kotmalie and 
Dimbulaas well — Ed. T.A.] 
ALBIZZIAS IN B. C. AFRICA. 
Dunraven, Estate, Mlanje, 14th March 1897. 
Dear Sir, — As -several planters have been send* 
ing samples of our local trees, wliicli answer 
somewhat to the description of Chikwani to me 
for identification (but all have turned out to be 
different), I write to inform them how they can 
unmistakably identify Albizzia Fastigiata Oliv. 
unless it tuins out that tliey have found some 
other Albizzia in the country, which I have 
searched for and failed to find. 
When the roots of Chikwani are examined 
you will find little lump-nodules about the size of 
small white beads which when squeezed exude a 
white milky substance, sitting quite unmistakable 
and prominent along the fibrous roots ; not a 
rough lumpy surface on the bark as one gentle- 
man Avas sure were the nodules referred to. They 
are the same as those attached to . the Albizzia 
Moluccana plants (although I have no plants 
myself) I am quite certain the nitrogen fixes 
Avill be found by those who have purcluved 
seed from the A. L. C. end grown the plants. 
—I am, etc., Henry Brown. 
P. 8 . — Cldkwani does not seem to be in 
Blantyre or Zomba for I have had samples of 
the nearest trees to it bub not the identical 
treesneither are they Albizzia . — Central African 
Gazette. 
[What does Mr. Bioavd, formerly of Matale, 
mean by coupling A. Moluccana witn “ nitrogen 
fixers.”— Ed. t..1.] 
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