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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[July i, 1891 . 
Uii oti rs »nd onr Cpyinii niiil which I believe 
lies at the root of the euceessfu' worliion of any husinPBS 
couoetn direoted by a London Board oartyintf on an 
enterprise in a country 6,000 miles di»’ant. I desire 
also to record the thanks of the Bonri to our Secretary 
for tlie admirable manner in which the duties of hia 
office, I mbraoing, as they do a groat deal of laboriou.a 
work, have been performed. I have now muoh pleaearo 
in moving the adoption of the report and balance 
sheet, and that a 6aal dividend of 8 per cent, bo 
dec ared navable farthwitb. 
The Home & Colonial Mail in a very brief summary 
of the meeting lays ; — 
In reply to qnostiona by shareholdera as to grosa 
fignres resulting in the aabstanli> I net prolit of £30,000 
aliown at rlio credit of revenue account, the Ohair- 
maii stated tba' the profit on ttio ton produced on their 
own esiat* a amounted to, roiiKhiy, 4d a lb and the 
profit (or c .mmiasit’n^ on tiie cri'ps purchased to about 
Id alb out of 'hi lid gross pr.iduet. One shBrnhclder 
expressed a desim tltul a little more broad details 
might be introduced in fnturo into the accounts, the 
same ns used to bo given in previous yesra ; while 
anctho' gent'i man pri Bcn' auggiated that the system 
foll.'wed by th' Indian Tea ' ompaniea of giving total 
Ceyh n expenditure and total produce rcniinatiuns, or 
a fully dctaileil ta ■ula'- statement such aa is presented 
by the Land Mortgage Bark of India (Ibe largest 
Indian tea Company) would be an advaetsgo. The 
Chairman, however, indicated that the feeling of the 
board was in favor of keeping such infoi motion private, 
but that iudividnal sbareholdera could, it they desirsd 
it, b" furnished with information, and that at the 
meetings the ohaitmao would also be ready to give all 
reasonable information. The meeting was then made 
Bpeoiai, and resolutions wore passed anthoriaiug the 
board to acquire, at a onst of £37,000, properties with 
an aggregate area of about 1,000 aores, about half 
of which waa under tea and ooilee oul'ivatiou. A 
cordial vote of thauksto the board and stuff for their 
efforts to bring the Company to its present Blato of 
BUOoeBB terminated the prooeedingB. — Local “Times.” 
CINCHONA IN JAVA. 
From Mr. ran Bomunda’a report on the Govern- 
ment oinohona enterprise in Java for the first 
quarter of 1801 we learn that the weather was 
somewhat abnormal, heavy rains alternating with 
drought. This was unfavorable for the young plants, 
and theLedgeriana seedlings suffered in oonscqucnce. 
By the end of the quarter the planting up of 
new grounds intended to ronnd olf tho phnta- 
tions on the Malabar bills wos as good ns finished 
BO far as those inten.ded for lodgnrianas were 
eonoerned; whilst the succirubra plantations uprooted 
in 1890 and during the last few months were re- 
planted with ledgetiana. The restoration of the 
older ledgeriana plantations by close intcrplanting 
waJ vigorously carried on. In order to diminish the 
cost of upkeep of plantations, the distance hetweeu 
ledgeriana secdUngs was diminiahed. Espeoially in 
Bcoond planting the distance' was reduced to a 
minimum, alter it had been nBoertaiued that on 
land planted lor the second time with oinohona, 
a vigorons growth commences only when the soil 
is shaded from the eficot of the sun’s rays. The 
crop of 1800 comprised 634.602 half kilograms 
bark, of which 142,300 i-kilos C'. mcciruhra, 6,447 
J -kilos C. Jo»ephiana (C.calimya, achuhkraft), ‘612,211 
i-kiloB O. ledgeriana, and 43 448 i kilos C. ojffloiiialie. 
During the quarter about 100, COO pounds of hark 
were gathered. At tho end of Match a commenaemeut 
bad been made with despatob of tho back. On 32nd 
Jan. and 20th Feb. sales of bark of the crop of 
1890 were held in Amstordam. The unit for manu- 
faotnrer’s bark ot these sales averaged 7J and 7 
oents. Good prices wore paid for ledgeriana barks, 
whilst for Buoofiubra bark oue meter iu length op 
to /1'32 and Jl-40 per i kilo waa paid. In Janu- 
ary and February sales of oinohona seed were 
held, the amount realized being J'397. The lots 
offered consisted slmost entirsly of succirubra seed. 
Through the carelessness of a fixed labourer a fire 
took place in one ot the bonsoB at Lembang, 
whereby the kampong attached to that establish- 
ment was reduoed to ashes. 
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Tins DUTCH MARKET. 
Amsterdam, April 29th. 
Cinchona. — The bark aales which will take place here 
on May lltli 1891, will oonBist of 3,313 bales 76 
cases— total about 289 tons— divided as folloWB.—yo»a 
hark: From Government plaiitatioDB 330 baloB, 22 
cases, about 20 tons ; from private plantatioos 2,988 
balefl 53 cbbrs, about 2t!0 tons. Druygista' {bark : 
Snccitubra quills, 64 oases ; broken qoills and chips 
170 bales; root, 14 balca; C. Anglica quilla, 11 cases. 
Manufacturing bark: Leilgeriaiia broken quill end ohips 
2,167 bales ; root 700 bales ; hybrides quills, 10 oases ; 
broken quills and chips, 96 bales j root, 120 bales; 
officinalis broken quills snd chips, 28 bales; root, 18 
bales. Total, 3,313 bains 76 cases. Tho analyses are 
not yet completed. — Cbemwt and DrvggUt, 
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SMALL CULTURE UNDER GLASS; 
{Commercially Considered.) 
By Aot'h™ Sinclaib. 
These serve for useful ends, when frosts by night. 
Or cold, raw winds the tender blossoms bite. 
— Lawrence. 
Abordeenshiro farmers are generally recognised as 
being, to say tho least, quite abreast of their brethren 
in tlio most advanced and best cultivated portions of 
tho world. The same, however, cannot bo said of our 
gardeners and small onltnrlsts. Our farmers, oonsidor- 
fiig tho brief sumniora in our northern latitude and 
far from rich soil, contrive to raise crops and cattle 
whioli might well, and daee, excite tho envy of 
agriculturists in more favoured climes. Indeed, I 
doubt if any of onr nnmerous colonies, yrodneing 
only one crop a year, yields a greater quantity of 
food per acre tlian “poor bleak Aberdeenshire." 
But, while farming has made wonderful progress 
during the present century, gardening lias progressed 
backwards, the lack of onoonragement from the 
degenerate sucoossors of former patrons and the diffi- 
oultiea to contend with hi the shape of an uncertain 
oUmate being deemed sufficient to account for this. 
The time waa when the M Intoah of the north was 
encouraged to vie with tho Faxton of tho south ; but 
nowadays, the tastes of my lord and lady find a more 
congenial if less roputahlo field iu other dirootions. 
But a new patron has arisen for the encouragement 
of tire horticulturist, even the great publio Itself, 
with a newly acquired taste for fresh vegetables, 
native, sub-tropical, and other tender greenery in and 
— espeoially— out of season. This ought to be encour- 
aged, and, ^ indeed, being fostered by many shrewd 
cultivators in Kent, Guernsey, and elsewhere, who 
have already acquired fortunes by the supply 
of those deUcocies ; and it is a desire to see Aherdoon 
sharing in this good fortune lliat prompts mo to 
write tliis paper. 
The demaud at present seems practically unlimited, 
and I hope to be able to show that tho possibilities 
of supply from Aberdeonshiie are as gi'eat as from 
any country in Great Britain. 
The culture of fruit and vegetables under glass has 
Jiitherto been looked upon as one of the luxuries of 
the very rich, and until recently tlio cost of glass 
practically proliibitod its use on a largo scale. It was 
thought also that our northern winters were too severe, 
and, moreover, there was no market till the taste 
