July i, iSqi.] 
THF TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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Mr. Bogiyuo ha? written much of the difficulties 
he has experienced aud of the obstacles placed in 
his way by the wholesale tea traders of Itussia. 
To uTercome such a disposition popular demand 
must hrut be established, and of his sucaesa 
hitherto in doing this Mr. Bogivua does not write 
very glowingly. Not that his letter is at all des- 
pondent. On the contrary, he evidently feels ultimate 
eueceas to be assured ; but he certainly recognises 
that his will not be a case of “ Kent, vidi, vici.” Ho 
has, he tells us, prepared the ground for a great 
experiment which ha is desirous of making, 
this being the opening of a kiosk specially 
for the sale of Ceylon tea, both infused and in 
packet, at a Brenoh Exhibition which is to be 
opened in Moscow today. Mr. Bogivue writes that 
he was not aware that specialists would be allowed 
to retail goods at that Exhibition in time to admit 
of his seeking authority from your local Tea Com- 
mittee hofore incurring expenditure in the direction 
he has undertaken. On his own responsibility 
therefore, ha has agreed to pay 11200 rent for the 
privilege of selling your less in a private kiosk 
to be erected in the grounds of the Exhibition, 
and he will have also to incut the further expense 
and responsibility of the oonstmation of the neces- 
sary building. For this and contingent expenditure 
he asks from your Tea Committee a grant of £500, 
and the details as to bis proposal — with which my 
space will not permit of my entering — seem to 
justify the confidence with which he makes this 
application. The Exhibition, it appears from the 
letter under reference, is assured of a very largo 
number of visitants— estimated at a million — con- 
sequent upon the expressed desire of the Tsar that 
the occasion should be ma le to express the cordial 
feelings now existing between his own people and 
those of France. 
Mr. Bogivue'a letter further informs us that the 
draft of £150 thiuk that was the amount) 
which you wore roocntly told by me had gone 
astray has never reached him. It was enclosed 
in a lettc,' o him from Mr. Leake which has 
never yet been traced. However, wo learn that 
the bank has paid the amount notwithstanding 
the loss of the draft. In addition to the ill- 
disposition shown by the wholesale trades above re- 
ferred to, Mr. Bogivue writes that he has to encounter 
a strong prejudice on the part of the people against 
your tea, and he has to confess that ho has not 
as yet been able to make his agency pay its way, 
and has, besides, bad to expend large sums in 
advertising. Among the forms adopted for this 
latter course ho had had large coloured copies of 
his trade mark — a Sinhalese woman working on 
a tea estate — posted up and distributed, while 
large placards have been exhibited calling attention 
to the superior merits of Ceylon tea. Apparently 
there are several largo houses in St. Petersburg 
and Moscow which are already considerable importers 
of your produce, but this is for mixing purposes 
only.^ Mr. Bogivue think Mr. Popoff’s late visit 
to Ueylon and his proceedings subaeijuent to that 
visit will aid greatly in establishing your teas on 
the Bussian market. 
He mentions a Mr. Wogall of Mincing Lane, a 
Bussian merchant, as a large purchaser of Ceylon 
teas in London for shipment to St. Petersburg, 
and states him to be still buying largely, though 
only for the purpose abovemoutioned, that of mixing, 
xour Commissioner admits that he has still very 
busy work before him before '• crying victory 
but ha anticipates marked good result from the 
BIX months’ course of experience at the forthcoming 
French Exhibition in Moscow. 
We read a good deal in a late issue of the A'eto 
ulledn about coconut butter, and a good many 
of us wondered to what uses this new material 
was likely to be put. Evidently these are not to be 
coniloed to alimentary purposes only, for it is stated 
that it is already extensively employed in the making 
of soap for cleaning metal work. It may probably 
be a leading ingredient in the well-known Brooks' 
soap so largely used for that purpose. The soaps 
ordinarily omployed lor this are said to bo com- 
posed of vaseline, oleic acid, and fat, mixed with 
a little rouge ; but they are staled to soon got 
raneid and worthless, while those soaps of which 
the base is coconut butter sic reported to be 
wholly free from this liability aud can therefore 
be kept for auy length of time. The demand for 
soap of this obaraoter is so enormous, that we cau 
unUerstaud now how it was that, aooording to tho 
A'eio Bulletin, the factories already edtablishud for its 
manufacture were altogether inadequate for meeting 
the supply required of ooooiiul butter. The 
kuowledge should stimulate your local merchauts 
to some endeavour to enable Ceylon to share in 
tho beuoliciai results to this demand. — London Cor. 
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OOLDEX TIPS. 
Tho sale of tea from tbo Uavilland estate in 
Ceylon, mentioned in today’s telegram, is the most 
remarkable yet recorded, the highest price hitherto 
realised having been over £11. We uotioed seme time 
ago in an Indian newspaper an illuoadriioaeii Indian- 
planter grunting out hii disapprobation , of tbeee high 
priced Hales of Ceylon tea. They wore “lanoy ’’ prices j 
there were soorea of tea gardene ia India which ooalu 
do the same tiling if they ohuae i only Anglo-Iudiaa 
mauagois were far too euiiaiblo to spoil a whole Hush, 
plundering its golden lips fir the sake of one unique 
paroel. No doubt £17 per pouud is a fancy prioe, aud 
pjssibly the value of a portion of one season’s yield 
on the Uavilland estate may have been impaired for 
the sake of this one parcel ; but what thou ? Tho 
Ceylon planter, hie Indian critic may rett assured, is 
not an ess ; and if he sacritices something to mako a 
show in Miuoiug Lane, he does it ivitb the knowledge 
that tho a lvortiaoment will pay in the end. His appre- 
ciation ot the value of a good tidvertisemeut, his euorgy 
and resouroo in pushing his wares, have had this result, 
that Oeylon tea in tin years has become rather better 
kuowu all over the world than has Indian in forty. Thuro 
is auetber aousu besides the literal in which tho pared 
from Uavilland might be said to contain "gcldeu tips. " 
— Fio neer, May Btb. 
Tka Conscmption And Ddtv. — With tho com- 
pletion of tne tea returns for the port of London 
for the past month we able to see what eBeot the 
reduction of the duty has had on the trade siuoe 
it came into operation a twelvemonth ago. The 
imports show the extensive increase of 13,985, 94d lb. 
as compared with last year’s figures, the total quantity 
imported being 147,803,040 lb., against 133,877,0911b. 
last year. This increase is almost entirely in Oeylon 
tea, the prodnotion of which is increasing very 
rapidly in oonsequenoe of tho favour which tho 
public have shown towards it. — L. and O. Exprets. 
The Amsierdam Qdinisb Works. — Tho annual 
goucral meeting of the sharoboldera in these works 
took place on April 30th, Ur. J. E. da Vrijiu the 
chair. Tho directors' report shows that although 
sufficient profit was made during tho year to provide 
for the amount which, according to tho statutes of the 
company, must be written off onaually, yet no 
dividend could bo distributed. The output of the 
factory iu 1890 amounted to about 350,000 oz, 
(9,952 kilos.) sulphate of quiniue, and the sales to 
about 300,000 oz, (8,628 kilos.)— C’fiemisf and Drujj- 
gist, 
