February i , 1892.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST 
569 
•esorted info thrao quilitiei, diitinguishol by the 
deBignations ot first, second and third. The inferior 
kinis are used in the preparation of the oil of oin- 
nsnoon.* 
CntNKsK Cinnamon (cassia bark). Immense quanti- 
V* O'ooennon are exported from China, the finest 
of which is lllfle inferior to that of Oeylon, though the 
mesa is much coarser. It generally comes loose or 
peaked in bundles with bands of Kamboo. The pieces 
vary considerably in length and are either cursed or 
donbte quills of ono-fonrlh to one inch in diameter, 
and have a smootli or finely-wrinkled, reddish-brown 
outer surface, marked with some dark leaf scars, ooca- 
aioually with light coloreil lines, and very geniTslIy 
covered with larger or smaller irregu'ar patches of bark. 
. Saioon Cinnamon, of late occasionally met with, is 
in regular nnseraped quills, yields a darker colored 
powder, but has a varv R^odt and warm ciooacnoD taRta. 
Cassia Ltonka ir a term Aometimea applied to io- 
ferior variotiea of Ohiuoe ciim%mon. which hat a 
^>cker bark and hut slight cinnamon odor and taste. 
The origin of tboae barks is not positively kaowo.+ 
OAtKNNE Cinnamon has a reddish tinge, and is usually 
thicker, being collected from older branches, butwh'^n 
gathered very young is so .rccly distinguisbable from 
Oe5Mcn ctnnamoo. 
Sometimes cinnamon from which the oil has been 
disLilled is fraudniently m’xol with the genuine. It 
can be detected by its erfat^r thickness and coarseness 
Of fmetaro, and the deficiency io the peculiar eonsible 
properties of tbospiou . — Phannaceuticol Era^ Nov. 16th. 
UEYLON’S PREMIER TEA COMPANY. 
An Immenhb OunuBN for the Year. 
We learn, on enquiry, that the total outturn of made 
tea from the factories of the Ceylon Tea PlautatiouB 
'company during the >oar 1891 waa 4,291,58Ub. which, 
®o far as wo know, beats tbertcor«i of any one com* 
pauy for bo'b India and Ceylon. Wo have no Indian 
^a lat’cs for theyour 1891, but in 1890 only two lndi\u 
Lompanioa approached this amount, viz, the North 
oylhet and South SylLet Companies, which each pro- 
duced 4 DulliooB lb. Comparing the Oejlon Ooinpauy’s 
1891 with the leadiog Indian cumpanies for 
1890, the result is as fellows 
Ceylon Tea Plantations Coy 
North Sjlhct Coy. (estimsi 
^iubSylhet Coy, (do.) 
Assam Ooy. 
Land Mortgage Bond 
Outluru of made t.a 
Ibi. 
1891 4,291,584 
1890 4,000,i)00 
1890 4.000,000 
1890 2,731,200 
1890 2,334,790 
If either of the two Sylhet oompAnifs boat the eut- 
Plantations Company for 1891 
we shall be surprized to heat it. The increase of tea 
lanufaotored in the factories of this Company daring 
1 ? 7®*^ ** about prATportiooate to the increase tor the 
Whole island, as the following fignres testify; — 
p , Outturn of made tea 
^ejlon Tea Plantations Coy. 1890 2.989,766 
do do 1891 4,291,684 
Ihe ezoellent prices obtained for the tea rnsnufac- 
ured by this Company, the l)w cost of production, and 
he efficient manner in which all their estates are 
orked, refloat the greatest possible credit on all the 
wperintendODts concerned, nud especially anon Mr. 
• A. Talbot, the General Manager, who is to bo 
ongratulated on the magnificent outturn from the 
estates under bis charge. 
* Of late years a fourth olass h.s bom added in the 
ape of chips, to the gieit lowering of prices. A 
‘“•■qo proportion of the chips formerly distilled into 
0 nnamon oil are mw used in lien of the baled spice, 
eu'ps being about the equivalent of dust in the oaso 
o' las.— E d, T. A. 
h.t Government botanist, 
„ " oarofully examined and described the Oliina oin. 
uamou.— Ep. T. A. 
THB company and COPFBE PtANTINO IN THE STRAITS. 
At a meeting of the shArebolders of the O. T. P. 
Company held in London on January 6th (the day 
before yesterday), it was decided not to take up land in 
the Straits for coffee planning — • decision which is, 
under the oiroumstanoes, a very wise one we think.>-» 
Local ** Times,” Jan. 8th. 
BARK DRUG REPORT. 
(From the Chemist and I>ruffgist.) 
London, Dec. 19th. 
Cinchona. —T he last cinchona auctions of the year 
were held on Tuesday. They were of fair extent, the 
number of packages offered being 
Coylon 
Pkgs. 
... 767 of which 
Pkps. 
654 
wore 
East Indian 
... 775 
do 
69i 
do 
Java 
... 65 
do 
55 
do 
South Amexican 
447 
do 
333 
do 
Total 2,044 
do 1 
.734 
do 
There was no quotable alteration io the prices npon 
last anetions, though perhaps the tone, generally speak- 
ing. was a shade less Arm during the latter part of 
the auction. The average unit may be qnoted at 1 1-lfiths d 
per lb. 
The following are the approximate quantitios purchased 
by the principal buyers 
. Lbs. 
Agents for the Mannheim and Amsterdam works 102,877 
Agente for the Frankfort o/M. and Stuttgart works 69,0tu 
Agents for the American and Italian works .... 69.891 
Agents foe the Auerbach works ... 49915 
Messrs. llowarJa & Sous 36,9.31 
Agouta for the Uruuswick works 4,217 
Agents for the French works ... 2,2*0 
Mr Thomas Whlffon ... ... 9.090 
Sundry druggists .... 24 879 
Total quantity of bark sold . ... 847,810 
Bought in or withdrawn 74,042 
Total quantity of bark offered 421,86 
SOMK ACCOUNT OF TIIK NUTMKG 
AND ITS CULTIVATION. 
By Thomas Oxley, Esq., A. B., 
Senior Surgeon of the Settlement of Prince of WaM 
Island^ Sin^japort and Malacca » 
{frQm.t)xe Jornnud of the Indian Archipelago and 
Kaetern .daia.”) 
(CoueJuded from page iSI.) 
In addition to keeping the trees clean and free 
from moss and parisitical plants, it is highly de- 
sirable to use freely the pruning knife, cutting aw'ay 
all perpendicular shoots, the decayed ends of bran- 
ches, or whenever the verticles are too close thinning 
them to admit air aud sun to the centre. From 
over bearing, poverty of soil, or lodgement of water, 
it frequently hap^ns that the top of Uio tree with- 
ers and the whole of the plant will soon follow un- 
less it be cut down below the affected part ; if ’this 
be done in time it generally saves the tree wliich 
after a few months will throw a shoot from the 
haard wood of the stem to replace the former loss 
Young plants are all the better for having the two 
or throe first series of verticles cut off, otherwise the 
tree becomes too shrubby and the lower branches 
touch the ground excluding air, forming altogether 
a very inferior plant. This practice would however 
bo unsafe in plaxies like Penang affected by droughts, 
unless the plants be keiit well shaded, until the 
upper verticles are sufficiently larce to afford pro- 
tection to the roots. As the tree bloods freely upon 
being out, the pruner ouglit to take along with him 
a pot of oeniont formed by boiling together two parts 
of pounded clialk and one of vegetable tar, which 
applied warm stops the run of the sap, gradually 
hardens and will remain on the out part until it bo 
quite licaled. I liavc soon it stick on for several 
years resisting all weatliors. 
Some trees from receiving too groat a check are 
apt to overbear, and will soon wear themselves out 
if not watched and relieved of their superabundant 
fruit. This ought to be done so soon as the fruit 
forms and if permitted to remain until threes 
