Cacao Planting in Ceylon

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Excerpt from Cacao Planting in Ceylon: With Hints as to the Best Varieties to Be Cultivated With its rich soil and forcing climate, there is no tropical plant that cannot be cultivated here. Cacao, tea and coffee as articles of diet, pepper, cloves and nutmegs as spices, and even the costly tobacco and the rare vanilla find a home here, while the graceful areka palm, shading the humble homestead of the poor villager, flourishes here with a luxuriance that is matchless. In such a district as this, at a happy moment the idea appears to have suggested itself to the promoters of the Agricultural Association to call it into existence. And it is now left with us to make it really useful, and subservient to our best interests, by making the fullest use of our opportunities. We can also, I think, always rely on the ready support of the Government, and of those who will, from time to time, be connected with our Royal Botanic Department. The desire to support the planters in the colonies is a feeling not merely confined to the incumbents of our local garden in the Island, but one that emanates from higher quarters, in fact, from the very fountain-head at Kew. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.