January i, 1892.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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from the mountain itself, and are obtained^ from 
trees one or two hundred years old. It is said that 
trees of this age emit a fragrance. The size of one 
of these trees is from twenty to fifty feet high, and 
four to five feet in circnrafereuco. Annamitos, who 
go in search of these trees, usually carry provisions 
to last for two months. Owing to the enormoiM 
price the Chinese pay the trees are denuded of their 
bark and consequently die. 
Chimj Fa Kvri, so called because it comes from 
the Ching Fa mountain, is the best kind, and its 
coat is about 2r) dollars an ounce. Chinese doctors 
flay this kind of cinnamon is good for curing and 
purging disease of the lungs and kidneys, infiara* 
mation of the eyes, convulsions in children, toothache, 
etc. When a piece has actually cured a dangerous 
disease, it is called Shan Kwci or God's cinnamon, 
and is held to be invaluable by the Chinese, and 
if procurable costs from fifty to one hundred times 
its weight in silver. ‘ , . -u 
Foe Kurd 'bitter cinnamon) and Ye Kwei (wild 
cinnamon) are also obtained from the same moun- 
tain. An infusion of the former is colourless and 
bitter, while that of the latter gives a sweet taste 
and imparts a dark rod colour to the water. 
All the above kinds are very scarce. 
N(joi ho Kwei . — A very good kind obtained from 
bills close by the above named mountain. It is 
readily procurable at ChinOBO druggists’ shops and 
costs from 5 to 7 dollars an oz. Chinese doctors 
generally prescribe this Idnd for sickness. 
Ko ^han Kwei . — This is an inferior kind of cinna- 
mon, and is an article of trade ; cost r»0 cents, to 3 
dollars a catty. 
All tho samples sent to Mr. Holmes are strongest 
flavour in the liber or ondophloBum. 
The libor of this drug in fact agrees with Ceylon 
cinnamon. 
The remarks already made on tho subject by va- 
authors may bo here summarized. 
Wells Williams, in his Chinese Commercial Guide, 
under the head of “Chinese Imports,” gives tho 
following 
Cinnavioii (Jan K’wei). “A little is imported into 
the northern provinces wdierc none of tho cinnamon 
or cassia trees grow. Cochin china produces both 
those plants, and tho true cinnamon has long lieen 
sent thence to China both by vessels and travel- 
ling traders across the frontier.” 
StiU6 and Maiach (page 476), “A kind of Chinese 
or Saigon cinnamon of late occasionally mot with 
in more regular unacraped quills, yields a darker 
colored powder (than cassia), but has a very sweet 
Warm cinnamon taste. Its histological structure 
^^ry similar to Ceylon cinnamon.” 
Fharmacographia ' (pages 52ii-30), “China oinna- 
uion of 1B70 cornea still nearer to Ceylon cinnamon, 
except that it is coated. A transverse section of a 
^ill not thicker than one millimetre exhibits the 
J^reo lav ers described as characterizing that bark, 
echlorenchymatous ring is covered by a par- 
rich in oil ducts, so that it is obvious that 
® fl®'Vour of the drug could not bo improved by 
“craping.’' 
Expedition of Lieut. Garnier for the explor- 
o* Cochin Chinn found caasia (?) growing wild 
n about north lat. 19°. Dr. Tliorel alao atatea tliat 
p, in a wild state in tho foroata of Cochin 
an West Uivor expedition, 1882, 
.y® C. Cama was not met with anywhere in a 
,.,u nor could any native be found who know 
wlwre It did grow wild. 
® * Esani aur la Pharmaoio Annaniito ’ 
both the liark of cinnamon and caaaia. — 
'“'■'^aceuHeal Journal. 
Casabysebd. 
OAB been the 
■B becoming a 
as well as for 
gone up, and 
of tho finer 
“omand. sell. 
Nov. 17th. 
—K peculiar feature of the past weel 
inorcaeed salos of oanaryseed, whiol 
popular food for horses and caltlt 
pheasants and poultry. Prices hav 
now stand at .Ida per 464 lbs. Som 
sorts, for which there ia a fane, 
however, up to Sis, — London Timei 
Destruction of Coconut Palms by Putre- 
FAOTivB Febmsntation IN JAMAICA. — We have 
marked for the Tropical Agriculturist a report by 
Mr. Fawcett, the Jamaica Botanist, on an obBonre 
disease in ooeonut palms. The remedies are 
fire applied to the trees, or a solution of sulphate 
of iron. 
Jamaica Cacao seems to be easily and 
plentifully grown but badly cured, while the market 
price is in proportion; From the Bulletin of the 
Jamaica Botanical Department we have marked for 
the Tropical Agriculturist letters from Mr. D, 
Morris and Messrs. Wilson, Smithett & Co. ao- 
oompanying samples of well, cured cacao, in which 
Ceylon stands first beyond all compare : Aloowibara 
154a per owt. 
Opium seems to be taking the plaoo of tea in the 
Fokbien province. The Foochmo Echo says : — Two 
tea-growers are we understand, planting poppies in 
the plaoe of toe in the lower ranges of their tea 
plantations. If they meet with suoaess, othora 
will follow their example, and give up tea alto- 
gether. The Imperial Government with its heavy 
export duty and the local government with their 
likin and other squeezes, have, between them, 
effectually killed the onoe flourishing tea trade of 
this province . — China Mail, Deo. 16th. 
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