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THf? TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[July i, 1891 
This order was still I^bs regarded during the time 
of the Bucceediug Mufti or Tutkiah Pope) who wsi 
hot as solicitous ftboiit it as his predecessors. He 
fat aside this order, aud nut ooly permitted a fr-e 
and undisputed uso of‘C iffee, but he hims» lf and the 
rest of the fraternity ludulgei iu if aad tboir example 
^vas immediut Jy f' ll'>wedby the countries, &c. 
It is also worthy ot romnrk that these OufTea 
house brought griut iraiii to the Prime Minintoror 
Chief Vizier, who got from euoh house from one 
to two ucats daily, be^idts tho one Asdar* hitberlo 
levied on every cup of Cotfee. 
Mr. UalUud further narrates that s-rico the war 
of Caudia when Stito aflairs wtr^ discussed with 
some freedom of speech in these CofFoe-houses by 
thoeo who frequeuiod tlieni, the sanio were directed 
to bo close 1 by the 0 :aut Vizi.r Koeprncli or 
Kioeperli, who wi'h h's two son-*, who nctod 
part of vigiUnr mformvrs, spared no paiiis in visiting 
these houses incogtiiio, an \ lisVmng to all sltnderous 
discourse'* at^ai'iat the Guv- rnma f, iu order to pun- 
ish the (!• linqneuts with great rigour — aud theimie 
vizitr duririg the minority of Mohammed the 4 h 
caused nil the^fi house » to be closed up, regardless 
of tho great loos which this proceeding entailoJ 
upon bimpolf. 
Although the Cuffeo houses were suppreflaed there 
was no dimiuuttou iu the ceusumption or tuat heveriigf , 
for it was now curried tj the public market amt 
about the priuoipal streets, fresh and hot, aud sold 
to the public, who partook of it iu the ueiglibouring 
shops, whore the couaumcra wliery very woIcoidp, os 
it waa one of the means whereby the shopkeera 
succoedod in Uiawing tboir attin ion the go da 
exposed by them for sale, and which thcao Goffee 
quaff ra were obligbed, nolens voleus, to purchase.’^ 
(To ba continued ) 
Till': KCWAIIA KLIVA SHOW. 
The nromotera of the ARri-Horticultural Show at 
Nuwara J'lUya may well Bo congratu ated on the 
oiioLaa which haa HO aboundatitly attended their 
rfforta It has been tlio means of creating a great 
social 'gattiering when all classes from the Qneon s 
R^enreslntative to the native gardeners, liave met to- 
oetLr with inutiial pleasui'o and, we may liope, with 
mutual advantage. Other considerations apart, were 
H for this oliject alone, such Exhibitions deserve 
;i.„ i;r,»rtv sunnort of ovoryonc, and should bo fostered 
wUh alfy s^Ele BolieituL; wliile the Flower Show 
Ws afforded an opportunity for lloncuiturisU to shew 
mis aiiorue flowers on which tlioy have 
others the P , ..ttontion, and of which tlicy may 
bestowed so ^ Wlien wo come to the exliibition 
:?-CdX P ‘Ke ^0 take leave of tho beautiful 
01 gaiami I ^ useful 
tLugb! it mi; be iimrtTstic; and. t'liough the culture 
of flowers is at once interesting and roflniiig, attention 
to culinary produce is also iirohtablo and conducive 
o the pr^rvatiou of liealth. The addition of a 
borsrai d poultry sliow was, no doubt an ingenious 
So to iiicrease the attraction of tl.o exhihitio.i 
so far as the gentlemen are concenied, many of 
regret to^bservo, fail to regard a l?voly lou^r 
as “a thing pf beauty aud a joyforovei. 
there appear to liavo been a number of small pi ixes 
wliTcb fmled to attract competitors, the exliibition was 
Tn cxcLdiiigly pretty affair, and afforded a vast 
miiouiit of pleaLre to a great mmiW oi visitors from 
« ni rts oi the country. Kegrct has been expressed 
i^n s'everal aiiartevs tliat planters pMve so >ndifleren 
nhoiit tlio exhibition of estate products. No doubt 
“ “woSia “add cousidirably ^'to'tUrintleit 
Sinay arc ais\imlined to rdga«l n» the 
Sbwer.shows at Nuwara Eliya. I'laiiting interest 
hir undergone very great cUiigea' suioe tbe^vs 
'•A Tiitkisb coi“ equivalent to three faithinge of 
pat money . 
of the highly successful Shows held in Kandy and 
Colombo some years back. We may remark in 
parenthesis tliat Kandy is much more favorably 
situated for an Agricultural Show tlmn is Nuwara 
Eliya, and much more likely to secure tho exhibition 
of produce end machinery. When those Sliows were 
hold a variety of products had been iiitroduoed to 
take tho place of tho declining coffee. Cocoa and toa 
were comparatively new to tiie imblic; cinchona was 
looked npon as a groat stand-by; and the different 
qualities of quill, cliips, renewed, Ac., Ac., were all 
eajiorly inspected by an interested public. Hut it is 
quite a different matter now. Tea has taken the place 
of coffee, and cinchona is totally disregarded ; ovoryon e 
knows all tliov care to know abont cocoa, and ovon 
cardamoms and India rubber have fallen into disrepute, 
to say nothing of annatto, sapan, Ac., A’o. Moreover, 
it must not he forgotten that tiie judging of tho to*, 
samples in Kandy was attended by unpleasant differ- 
ences of opinion, mainly, it is true, about what con- 
stituted a lair commercial sample, Imt nevertheless 
a feeling of irritation remained in the minds of many 
in spite of all efforts at explanation. Wlien a planter 
found the toa ho exhibited in Kandy fetching in London 
a penny a pound more than tho gold-iiiodiil tea of 
the Kandy show, ho naturally felt that that modal 
had been wrongly bestowed. Tea-making is now the 
business liy which planters make tlieir living, and when 
it conies to an oxhiliition in London or Melbourne, 
where great interests are concerned, and where the 
competition embraces the jirodnce of rival tea-produc- 
inc countries, we have no doubt Ceylon planters will 
again come forward as they have done in tho past, 
and do their best to take the front place witli their 
estate products. Hut in these petty local exhibitions 
it is not worth wliile; they lend to no husilloss, and 
they require just the same care and troulilo as regards 
the exhiiiitn as do the more important Shows in 
foreign couo'.ries. In short, the flower-shows at 
Nuwara Eliya aud Kandy are rogarded as mere 
sources of anuisoment and sociability; whilst the 
exhibitions iu other countries are meetings of com- 
mercial value and iiiiportauee. Amongst the exhibits 
at Nuwara Eliya we notice some cinchona crown hark 
said to liave been live times renewed. Wo should ho 
very glad to know how this “ fifth renewal" bark 
turned out an analysis, as for a longtime there was 
an impression atx-oad that "renewed" hark, as well 
as very old "original," was apt to lose its value by 
deterioration: In regard to tlio india-ruliher not 
thoroughly drying, hut becoming hard outside, whilst 
tiie interior slioiiod a mass of soft decaying milk, it 
is pretty evident that it liad not been exposed to 
dessication in sufficiently thin layers to enable the 
drying process to lio thorough. The Indians in 
South America are said to smear the coagulating 
juice over a clay mould sometliiiig in tho shape of 
a soda-water bottle holding it over a fire, and, as one 
layer becomes dry, another is iiut on, until a soli*-! 
lump is attained. The clay mould is then broken or 
cut out. On the East coast of Africa, and in Madagas- 
car, the rubber is collected by the natives and brought 
to the trader in irremilarly shaped lumns bigger than 
a mail’s fist. These lumps are promptly cut in two 
with a heavy knife — to see if any earth or stones are 
present — and thou tiie rubber is weighed. We limy 
add tliiit tlio riibher has an abominable smell in this 
stage of preparation, and the same mny be said of 
the ruhlier wliich comes down from tho Chindwin 
and other parts ot Upper Hiirmah. Wo have always 
thought that ruliber cultivation was too hastily 
abandoned in Ceylon, hut at tho saino time we fail 
to see any prosjiect of its being again taken up as a 
commercial undertaking. — Local ‘‘Times.' 
IiipomtHT 10 Plantebs. — An annoanoeroent of 
some importnnoe to planters appears in our adver- 
tising columns today. Messrs. J. M. Kirwan & Oo., 
Billiter Square Buildings, London, announce that 
tho planters desirous of giving a trial to the firm’s 
prepared paper for lining tea chests which has 
now been sucpessfully tested on the London market, 
can have suflioient to line 25 chests free of charge 
on applying to Messrs. Bosanquet & Co,. Oolombo. 
