THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[August i, 1891. 
118 
8ii months ago I did not know how the practical 
apidicetion of remedies was to be managed. Sponging 
the leaves over took from 15 to 20 minutes per tree, 
spraying with a syringe took from 5 to 10 minutes 
and was not thorough. l4aboring under this difficulty 
I did not consider that any practical good was to bo 
gained till this point was settled, boras Mr. Ward 
said it is not the moat difficult thing to find a sub- 
stance to destroy the fungus, but it was somewhat 
difficult to comply with the other conditions laid 
down, but I managed even that. And in February 
last two spray machines were sent from Bngland 
by Messrs, kf^atheaou A Co. : these fulfilled all the 
conditions nooessary for ptMticol work. 
All that is now roejuired is to test the remedy and 
method of application on a wholesale scale. 
I have been engaged in practical work, ever since 
I left Bchool„and 1 can honestly any that leaf disease 
is proventible'ny practical measures, if there is labor* 
to carry through the work at the right time. 
WILLIAM PRINGLE, m.s.c.i., Late Agricultural 
Chemist to Messrs. Matheson & Co., in Coorg. 
4. 
WYNAAD PLANTJSKS’ ASSOCIATION. 
Prooeodiugs ofa general msetiug hsld at Vayitri Ju- 
bilee Hall, 3rd June 1891. 
Leak DisBase, — Ueveuup.— “ The Government con- 
siders that it would be very desirable to comply with 
the request of the Wynaad Planters’ Aasocutiou (that 
Surgeon Major Barclay bs sent to the ootfeu districts 
of Southern India on the apeoial duty of investigating 
Hemileia Vaitatrix) and the Government of India will 
accordingly be addresaed.” — Recorded with ratisfaotion. 
Road llonorary Scorotary’s letter of Alarch 10 h to 
Professor Galloway, Baroau of Vegetable Patholosy, 
Washioglon, to which no aiiawor has licen received. — 
Read lelter fr >m Mr. Priegle, ii.s. c. 1. offering his 
services as a seiBO list and analyst: the Honorary Si- 
oreiary waa instructed to thiiuk Mr. Priogle, aod to in- 
form him that the proposal to give a Urge reward for a 
prsetioal care for leaf disease was still nuder discussion. 
Tea.— M r. Hockin statoil that five Essays had been 
received. Resolved That Mr. O. L. Yoiige be re- 
quested to act ns Judge of the Essays.” 
THE TEA MARKET AND VABIATION 
OF PBI0E8. 
Sia, Every year, when the ten market is low and 
prices pO'W, cue hears a groat deal said about the 
poor quality of the tea sold, sud only in one or two 
cases are good prices realised. Now it appears tome 
that a good tea hat no chaueo at ail it sold when 
the market is low, as I will show. In January I bad 
in the factory between 8 and 9,000 lb. tea, but, being 
unable to send it nil forward in one invoice, 1 divided 
it as equally as I could and seut the first lot for- 
ward to London by the 8th of the same mouth valua- 
tione on samples giving, tor Broken Pekoe Is Id, fur 
Pekoe lid Pekoe Souchong 9.1, for which 1 got— lor 
Broken Pekoe U 4d Pekoe Is, Pekoe Suuohoiig lOJd, 
average Is lid- 'Through one delay and another the 
second lot did not go forward to Loudon before 
March This was valued in Colombo at a higher 
fiirnro 'than the other half (though the same make)— 
Broken Pekoe Is 8rd,Pekoa lid to Is, Pekoe Souchong 
lUd, while the prices realized ware Broken Pekoe lOJd, 
Pekoe ajd Pekoo Souchong 8J, average 9d, the same 
teas from one invoice fetching Is lid ami Od average- 
June 24th. Corhespokde.nt. 
•— Iiocal “ Times.” 
* And Money.— B u.T.A. 
The Onoco is a new plant or vine well known 
in the island of Sumos, which is creating great 
interest in Santa Barbara. The fruit weighs on 
the average about three pounds and has the flavor 
of a chestnut. It ripens in about 90 days 
and hos been known to grow to weigh 20 pounds. 
— Rural Californian. 
Tea in jAhAN. — 2he Japan WeeMy Mailoi 
IBtlil June Bays ; — 
A large business has been done in Tea, snd settle- 
meuts to tho 10th instant total 132,323 piculs. The 
haf now being mostly handled is said t . be not quite 
so good in cup as the same grade-s last season. Prices 
arc well maintained, and seocud pickings are coming 
in. 
The same paper in its issue of 20th June says: — 
Tho Tea fratlo has not been quite so active, but 
pricea liave been well maintained. Second crop leaf 
is BOW in full supply, aid total sett euu-uts to date 
are 20,0(10 piculs mure than at same perio l last year 
The UolonV op the Leewahd Islands. — The 
text of Mr. Moriis’s lecture on these islands bag 
just beeu piinf.'d in the journal of tho Royal Colonial 
lustitute. It comprises a description of the natural 
features of the islands and their agricultural resonrees. 
As ill the ease of agrioiilturists nearer home, the 
colonists bavo manifested a tendoncy to i>nt all their 
eggs into one basket, and with more or less disastrous 
results. Thanks to th.3 initiative of Kow, and the 
energy of Mr. Moiri.s, ”boinical” stations, which 
should rather be csllol agiicultursl stations, have 
beou institnted for tho purpo.so of introducing and 
distributing tropical and other plants likely to ho of 
economic importance sn.l suitable for ciillivat.ion in 
partioulnr district-, such as Coffee, Tea, Caoutchoac 
in various forms. Cinchona, spioos, fibre-plants, and 
so on. A groat lederation or bo’anioal .'tid sgriouitut 1 
stat ous, with ICow at tli’-. c: utre, has ba- 11 tfiei-leai of 
successive direotor.H, snd now the ideal i' Te ng realised 
Perhaps ill tho future tho West ludiii Islands, or 
other suilable localities may boutilisol as nurseries 
for Orchids and other tropical plants, whence the 
homo market msy be supplied, aoraewliit as the 
propagating houses at Kew furni.sh tho decorative 
plants fur tho show houses. — Oardenerr’ Chronicle. 
Java Cinohona Estate Dividends. — Tbs annual 
general meeting of shareholders in tho Java Oin- 
ohona i’lanting Company, “ Melattie,” was held in 
Amsterdam on June 3rd. A divid nd of eleven per 
cent waa declared for the working of the year 
IS'.IO, while, in addition 2,000f. was written oft tor 
deprooiation of buildings, 3,000f. carried to the 
reBorvo fund, and a balauoa of profit of 1002'54t. 
curried to now aooount. The name ” Melattie,” 
does not ooour among onr list of Java estates. There 
is however, a Gocnoeng Melati estate, wliioh is one 
of the best in the island, an I produces an equiva- 
lent in bark of 4,000 to 0,000 kilos, sulphate of 
quinine per annum. It dens not follow by any 
means, however that the dividend was not obtained 
from produce ()ther than cinchona,- Cfiemisf and 
Vruggift, June 18. 
The N.LMB of Ceylon and of its chief products, 
espscially tea, baa probably been mu ie known more 
widely througli the Tropical Agriculturiit than even 
through tho Tea hund or its agents. We got letters 
from the most out oj-the way oornera of the world in 
appreciation of the 7 . A .and its oontonts. One of the 
ffitest is from the editor of ” Tho Telegram," Colon, 
Central Amenoa, who thinks so highly of tho 
poriodioal and of its ueefulnoss to the airioulturists 
in his olate, that he has begun advertising it without 
wailing forour lorder I The filing of the Ceylon Tropi- 
cof .igricultuTBt in th« AgiiouUural Department, 
Washington, makes refert.nee to it not infrequent 
m the official papers which are issued by the 
Sooretary to all tho Btatea of the Union. And so 
the name of Ooyloii and its planting enterprise 
beoomos known lac and wide. 
