“Step after step the ladder is ascended.^- Greorge Herbert, Jacnla Prudentum. 
Agriculture isthezuost healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man." — Washington. 
THE 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF INFORMATION FOR PLANTERS 
OF 
TEA, CACAO, COFFEE, PALMS, RUBBER, CINCHONA, SUGAR, 
RAMIE, COTTON, TOBACCO, SPICES, CAMPHOR, RICE, 
AND OTHER PRODUCTS SUITED FOR CULTIVATION IN THE TROPICS: 
Circulating in India, Ceylon, Burma, Straits, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Northern Australia, 
Queensland, Fiji, Mauritius, Natal, West Indies, South and Central America, 
California, Southern States, and throughout Great Britain : 
EDITED BY 
J. EEHQ-TJQOISr, 
of the “ Ceylon Observer,” “ Ceylon Handbook and Directory,” <£c. 
‘‘ It is both the duty and interest of every owner and cultivator of the soil to study the 
best means of rendering that soil subservient to his own and the general wants of the com- 
munity ; and he, who introduces, beneficially, a new and useful Seed, Plant or Shrub into his 
district, is a blessing and an honour to his country. ” — Sir J Sinclair. 
YOL. XYII. 
[Containing Numbers I to XII. : July, 1897, to June, 1898.] 
CEYLON: A. M. & J. FERGUSON, COLOMBO. 
LONDON; 
John Haddon & Co. ; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. ; Luzac & Co , ; &c. 
Madras : Higginbotham & Co. — Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co. 
Bombay : Thacker & Co., Ltd. — Australian Colonies ; Gordon & Gotch. 
West Indies and Central America: C. H. Calderon, St. Thomas. 
Straits Settlements and Eastern Archipelago ; -John Little & Co., Singapore^ 
PIONGKONG AND YOKOHAMA: — KeLLY & Co. JaVA : MeSSRS. JoHN PrYCE & Co., 
Batavia, G. Kolfp & Co. 
MDCCCXCVIII. 
