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THE TROPICAL AQRIOULTURIST [Nove mber 2, 1891. 
Quinine. — The market remaine dull, but at the 
eloee of laet week a Fmall traneaotion in second-hand 
Oetman bulk at O^d per oz was reported. Since then 
business has been enspended in anticipation of the 
result of today's work sales in Amsterdam. On 
September 96tn one of the German *' speculative" 
brands was being offered in New Tork by the manu- 
facturer at 19^ cents (94d per lb.) for contracts all 
over 1891. That manufacturer certainly does not 
entertain sanguine views with regard to the future 
of tbs article. The following are the manufacturers’ 
present quotations: — Howard's, in tins, Is Id to Is 
8d ; in vials, la 8d to Is 4d; Whilfen's, in tins, Is 
Id: in vials. Is 8d; Pelletier’s in vials. Is lOd ; 
Milan in vials. Is 2d ; in tins. Is ; Zimmer and Jobst, 
in tins, ll^d ; other German brands, in tins, lO^dper 
oz . — Chenitt and Druggifit, (Jot. 10th. 
OiMCHONA.— Having regard to the meagreness of 
onr bark tales of late, the supply of nearly 1,500 
packages this week seemed almost abnndant. The 
quality of the hark offered, too, was superior to what 
out buyers have bad to content themselves with lately, 
Tbe catalogue consisted of 
Tkgs. 
Pkga. 
Oeyion bark 
1,001 of which 
1,001 
Indian bark 
138 „ 
105 
Java bark 
84 „ 
74 
South American 
bark 214 „ 
5 
ToUl 
iiw „ 
1,885 
There was a very fair demand throughout the suetiont, 
in whioh the majority of the mauufaoturers’ agents 
participated, and with steady competition all the 
Ceylon as well as tbe bulk of the Indian and Java 
barks were disposed of at an average unitof IJJper 
lb. for good mauofaoturiog barks. 
The following are the approximate quantitifs pur- 
obssed by tbe principal buyers: — 
lbs. 
Agents for the Mennbeim and Amsterdam works 67,15 
„ Auerbach factory 65,687 
Messrs. Howards & Sous 46 803 
Agents for tbe Frankfort of M. and Stuttgart 
works ... ... ... 42,765 
„ Bruoswiek works 29,180 
„ American and Italian works ... 26,91u 
Sundry druggists 10,189 
278,150 
63,870 
Tolal quantity of hark sold 
Bought in or withdrawn 
Total quantity of bark offered ... 332,020 
It should be well understood that tbe mere weight 
qf buk purchased affords no guide whatever to the 
quinine yield represented by it ; firms who boy a small 
ouautUy of bark by weight frequently take tbe richest 
lots, and ties vena. Tho following prices are shown 
by an analysis of the ealalogiiea to have been paid for 
sound bark : — 
OfiYLON Cinchona.— Original Rod varieties, ordi- 
nary woody to good bright stem and branch chips 
lid to 3d ; a few fine lota, 4d ; dust. Id ; dusty root, sid • 
ordinary weak quill, 8d ; fair to fine bright spokes 
shavings, lidto4d per lb. Yellow varieties, common to 
good bright qiiilly Ledger chips, IJJ to 4d per lb 
Yellow varieties, common to good bright qnilly ledger 
chips, IJd to did ; good to floe bright Bhavings, 4d t« 
7d : dull root, 3tl ordinary Calisaya obip.s, 2Jd to 2id - 
root, 3d per lb, Grey varieties, ordinary dull to good' 
bright quilly branch and stem chips, l£d to .'i)d ; fair to 
good root, 3d to Sid per lb. Hybrid chips, ijlil to id - 
root, SJd to 4d ; shavings, 2iil lo5id per lb. Renewed: 
Red varieties good to very fine rich_ shavinga 3Jd to 
etd ; poor to good slem nud branch chips, 1 jd ; to 31(1 
good qnilly obips,4d per lb. Yellow common chips, 
fijd ; fair shaviogB. 6jd to OJd per lb. Grey varieties, 
poor to good quilly stem and branch chips, 2id to 5id 
per lb. Hybrid dusty to fair stem and branch chips, 
*id to 4id per lb. 
It is mentioned in connection with tlio Gibba Dryer 
and patent P’itter Stoves, tliat the tea from the gardens 
of the Jokai Assam Tea Company, Liniitod, wliich 
fetched tho top price in the “Lane," were passed 
through these dryers, and that the fermentation was 
fixed by these uiacliinos.— //ohis and Colonial Mail. 
Mr. Barton's Tea Bisease, for whioh ho 
was to provide " a perfect cure,"’ turna out, as 
we expeoted, to be a care of much ado about no- 
thing. Trees badly planted in shallow holes with 
their ^roots turned up, cannot make healthy growth 
and in shallow and moisturoless soil, even tea 
cannot enjoy a healthy existence,— that is all. In 
such large expanses of tea as exist in Ceylon, 
some bad planting in good soil and some planting 
in unsuitable soil is inevitable and so there are 
some unhealthy plants on every estate, apart 
from those sffeoted by eymplocos fungus. Dr, 
Trimeu's deliverance on the subject, as conveyed 
in response to queries from tho “ Independent ” 
editor, is SB follows 
The leaves at tho ends ol the shoots are dry, often 
piiokored and torn, yellowish, discoloured with brown 
spols and hues and they seem to ultimately dry com- 
pletely and fa'l off. The twigs bcooraediy and are 
often quite dead at their summit ; lower down, though 
apparently healthy outside, tho young wood and inner 
bark show a brown discoloration and decay. Such an- 
I^iearanoea might bo due to the ravages of a sucking 
inBcct, but 1 81 e no truce of any, FortiinAlely our 
Oeyion ApccicF of Hehveitis does net aoem to attack 
ten. Tho brown disooloratioiia of the loaves are not 
at all like those produced by any parasitic fungus, nor 
18 any moll lobe discovered on theoi. I cannot find 
any web of red apider or any other trace of that insect 
The appearaooes clearly point to some failure in root 
aohon. and I liat this is their cause is probable from an 
exammalion of the roots sent. 
In the Isrger lush (No. 1) which is apparenUy 
a stump with a msio btem uearlv 7 in 
of lete than 8 inohea below the ool'ar, bent a* right 
angles, ami runs horixantally for 3 feet, at whioli 
length it has been ont off in digging the pLnt Just 
below tho crown, there are many other horizontal 
branobes also spreading ont to as groat a length 
laterally aa the tap root, and like it cut off 
In the smaller bush (No. 2) the state of things 
IS not so had, the lap root extending dewn- 
warda for 12 inohea, tod then brnuchiug hori. 
nontally ; in this alsu there are a largo 
number of thick spreading horizontal hracches 
immediutely below tbo 8urfaco of the Rrouud 
This state of the roots is such as shonld bo found 
in no tea bush grown ninlor proper favorable condi- 
tions, and shovvs conclusively that the plant is nnablo 
to obtain « snffloiont supply of fcod, and specially of 
water. Ibcao two bushes must have boon planted 
in soil far too shallow for so deep rooted a plant a^tea 
Tho cases before me then are practicaRj; 
oases of BtsrvatioD, and want of sufficient 
water to sopply the evaporation from the 
leaves. I aee in them no evidence of disease 
in any other aense than this. The condition of the 
bushea IS individual to each, and has nothing of an 
epidemic obnrtioter. ® ““ 
I »m, of conrfi*, able to apfak only aa to the material 
M j i • ® *M»nuta rootlota have necessarily been 
all destroyed m removing tho foil, and I am thus un- 
able to say whether the condition is aggravated by 
•'grub,'’ but It IS fully explained by the evidence of 
uBBuitablo conditions aupplicd by the roits. 
The real oauao is careleaa planting. Tea should 
never be put out in places where there is no possibility 
of Us tap loot takingits natural direction, though of 
course sumethlng may be done by outtiiig it off I 
am sure, too, that coolies very often turn the root 
lip by planting m boles that ate loo bIuILw. Tea is 
a very bardy plant; but it feels drought, and in on, 
dflwm“7 toat-syatem must be largely 
developed to supply tho great evaporation. 
