Show 5 how now Is I 1 Oather lathered wl MISS cumming in her book two nappy happy years hi in ceylon thua thus describes cinnamon t C 1 1 and traffic ns as she caw saw it I 1 in operation e era r tion the cultivation is something like that of 3 willow cop copse se straight young is hoots springing up around the stump of the plant previously cut these abc As ca lu their 6 turn are cut every second year that is to say y when they are about five feet high and r t inches in circumference A ROOI good many 01 are sold aa as walking sticks r and find a ready market on board the steamers among iong the paben passengers g ers who thin think k there must bo be a special charr charm in a cinnamon 0 tick though in truth it is hard bard to distin eulth gull 11 it t from our common hazel butof but of course tho the real thing tobe to bo secured 11 the highly aro aromatic matio inner bark barl C first of all the leaves are stripped off an and d the n the hark bark Is split from end to end with harp knife which has a curved point with this aided by the fingers fl ngern the bark 0 carefully removed la in lone iona aleem are up and left to fodden sodden ao as a to facilitate the next process that of scrap DR off the outer rind in order to do this each piece ot of the bark Is a placed on a ra round tind pi piece ece of wood and carefully scraped with the knife the almost nude brown workers sitting on the ground and using their toes as an extra band hand to steady the end of the stick the bark li bi then left to dry in the sun w when hen it rolli rolls itself up into tight quills these are neatly sorted and packed three or four inside of one another and are made up into bales covered with cloth and are then ready for export |