t'EBRUAUV t, 1892.] 
THE TROPICAL AQRIOULTUR18T. 
593 
OiTBRPiLLARa ON AtBizzua. — A box of poor tea 
attached to a branch of albizzia having been sent 
to us by a planter who wished to know it the 
inseots were likely to do barm, wo banded them 
to our entomological referee, who writes : — “ The 
pooohios are the larvce and chryealids of a common 
little yellow buttethy belonging to the genus 
‘Terias.’ They feed on a great variety of planta, 
but are not likely to do any more than temporum 
damage to the plant they aeleot. When noticed 
they ean be oolleotod by band and deatroyeil." 
Pkei'ared Cofkke Leaves. — Oofl'ee-tua was 
brought under the notice of the Uoyal Botanic 
Society of London on Saturday at a meeting pre- 
sided over by Mr. O. J. Symons, p.n.B. The samples 
of eolfee-tea, or prepared coffee loaves, were grown 
in the Sooiety’a Oonservatory. The seorotary said 
it had been estimated that the percentage of theine 
in the leaves of coffee was 1-20 as against 100 in 
the beans. As the leaves may be eaady grown in 
many parts of the world where it is difficult to 
insure good crops of coffee beans, he thought it 
might prove a valuable agricultural product in many 
of our warmer colonies. At present, he said, only 
some 2,000.000 of men use coffee-tea in compariaon 
with 110.000,000 who use the bean, and 500,000,000 
who drink Chinese and Indian tea. — Jlclio. 
Ckvi.on Tea in Ausxjiai.ia. — W e have been 
naturally gralilied by the receipt of a note from 
a Ceylon planter who has returned from a visit 
to Australia, in which he is good enough to say, 
after conveying remembrances from old friends, — 
“ Till 1 visited Melbourne I did not realise how 
much good jrou hsve done the tleylou Tea iudustry.” 
Tho period referred to, 1880-81, is an age back 
in the history of the rapid rise and progress of 
the tea enterprise. It was tho day ol small things, 
but of large promise ; and few eon imagine the 
yirulenoe of the attacks we bad to boar from vested 
interests in China tea, and the hardness of the 
battle we had to fight in common with our friend, 
Mr. James Inglis, who represented India in the 
absence of Mr. (now Sir Edward) Buck, to secure fair 
play for the teas of India and Ceylon, wbioh 
Were being introduced to the Melbourne market. 
We were fortunate enough to get Mr. Newbory, 
c.M.fi., of the Melbouruo Museum, and his 
Assistant Chemist and Mr. Moody of Messrs. 
Hanty & Co., interested in our Ceylon produet-; 
and the results of a number of elaborate 
analyses by the able Government chemists, went 
•0| show what Mr. Oosohen recently dwelt on, 
the saperior ohoapness of our tea in oompari. 
son with that of China, when strength was 
oonsidored. Wo were also able to exercise 
Borne influonee through the Melbourne press 
whioh helped the then infant cause. But 
the contest was a hard one. It is pleasing to 
■ *'**^*> though largely forgotten here, friends 
*n Melbourne appreoiate the efforts we made and 
have conveyed their impressions to a Ceylon 
planter after the fashion he kindly iudioates. 
. -^Babk Syndicate at Work. — A syndicate of 
importers, formed tor the purpose of keeping 
nn pries of oinohona bark, oommenoed it.9 
Am I Thursday’s bark sales in 
sterdam. At those auotions 470,441 kilos, of 
“anufaoturmg bark (containing about 2U,000 kilos. 
offered. Of this supply, 30,000 kilos, 
in 1’ '^®P^®B*hting 1,463 kilos, quinine, were bought 
400.061' kilos, bark (^ 18,648 Vjlos. 
eomnnM purohases by the various 
fourth ^*^® syhilicato purohased over one- 
eoual (n quantity— viz.. 118,411 kilos, bark, 
quantitv it qninine sulphate. This 
9 ntity, it should be borne in mind, bas not 
gone into consumption, but is at present stored 
up. The primary object ol the oombination is 
said to be the advanoe of the unit to 7o., or i^d. 
per lb., and it is believed that funds to the ox ent 
of fiUU.oOOll. (nearly 12,0001) are at its disposal for the 
realisation of this object. Tho total cost of the 
bark purchased at 'Thursday's BuotioDS by tho 
syndicate was (10,00011 ; or 6,000/.lf, therefore, 
the oombination oontinues its operations, in 
Amsterdam only, upon the same scale at sue. 
ceeding auctions, its funds will be exhausted at 
the end of August next year, and it will than, 
upon the basis ol the present prioe, have aoou- 
mutated about 050,000 kilos, bark. At the prooeding 
Amsterdam auctioos the unit averaged 6 83a. 
Since then quinine bas fallen 10 per oent in 
value, and, caleulating upon that basis, an average 
unit of 5-2o. would have been the true market 
level. On Thuts.lay last, as a matter of fact 
tho average rose to 5 G5a . ; henoo the purchasers 
who bought for aotual oonsaroption had • to pay 
an average of O.8O0. pet kilo., or about 7-16d. 
p.r lb. more for their quinine than they would 
proeumably have paid had the market been 
allowed to follow its natural course. As the 
manufacturers bought bark repreacotiug about 
18,000 kilos, quinine, it follows that the syndioate 
by spending 60,00011. (5,0001), compelled the 
makers to an extra outlay of about 10,700 11. 
(9001.)— C/irmisl and Druggut, Deo. 26tb. 
Exotic Tkkes at Sauahinpobe, N. W. P 
India.— Erom the ineresting and oomprehensivo’ 
report of those Gardena, which are extra- tropical 
and in a region of moderate rainfall, we extract as 
follows : — 
The following is a statement showing the number and 
kinds of trees under trial io the exotic plantation aud 
their present condition : — ““ 
Kamo. 
Acnoia rupestris 
Do. (ortuoB ., 
Anogeissua pendula .. 
Acer dasycarpum . . 
Brossouetia payprifera. . 
Cedrela australis 
Croton tiglium , , 
Corntouin siliqua . . 
Divi Divi .. .. 
Diospyros virginiana .. 
Do. 
oitriodora 
Do. 
fP 
Do. 
saligne 
Do. 
bioolor 
Do. 
robnsta 
Do. 
resiotfera 
Do. 
rostra ta! 
Melia sempervireus 
Pitboeolobium bigemi- 
num 
Catelpa bignonoidos .. 
Owenia oerasifera . , 
Prosopis spioigera 
Do. juliflora 
Swietenia maoropbylls.. 
Do. mshogani , , 
Sapium I igUudulosum... 
Number 
planted Remarks 
out. 
•1 HoaUhjs but growing 
6 Doing well. 
4 Healthy, but growing 
slowly. 
4 Not doing well. 
27 Doiug well. 
3 dll. 
3 Healthy, but growing 
slowly. “ 
34 Healthy ; fruits ftcolv 
every year. ^ 
6 Not doing well; out down 
o ii®''i®,l^ season by frost, 
« Uealthyi bul growlDjit 
alo^Iy. 
10 Doiug well, 
13 do. 
10 do. 
16 Doing best of *11, 
3 Growiug slowly, 
46 Doiug well, 
15 do. 
890 do. 
16 Doing well and grow- 
ing fast. 
12 
20 
7 
14 
100 
4 
7 
4 
sjrruTriuil 
very Tiealthy. 
Doing well. 
Growing slowly, fcu 
boaltby. 
Doing very well ; make 
a good rough hedge. 
Growing slowly. 
Doing fairly Well. 
Injured by frost; dcei 
not seem.hardy. 
