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Agricultural Gc.zeifr of N.Sjr. [J/mf> 2, l!)'>s. 



The Cultivation of Coffee. 



AVrni I'AKircuLARS of British and Australian J.Mi'oirrs 



roR THE Year lUOi). 



H. V. JACK SOX. 



The C jiiuH )n A'ealtli (iJuvci'aiiii'iil 



laviim' UK 



ludi'il Cotfee among the items 



scheduled for bounties under tlie ]^>ouiiti('s Act,il is possible inoi-e interest 

 n)ay bo taken by some of the New South Wales settlt^is in the eultivation of 

 eoffee than has oeen the case up to the present, and therefore tlie following 

 notes may ba of service. 



\\ lifii the writei' was stationed at AVol- 

 longbar, Iviehinoml l!i\('r, some attention 

 was given to the culti\ation of coffee trees. 

 The expei'inient farm was suri'ounded 

 by tiie dense scrub and forest growth 

 indigenous to that jioi'tion of the countiv, 

 and although the farm land is undulatinir 

 and )Kirti<ins are at hiulier elevations than 

 so)ne parts of the area, ne\ertheless it was 

 on the whole well shelteivd en all sides. 



As the extension of settlement caused 

 clearings to he made in the innnediate 

 vicinity, caiv was taken to conserve as fai- 

 as ])0ssible suitable masses of standing 

 scrub on tlie borders of the farm where 

 windbreaks of standing scrub were most 

 desirable. My predecessor, Mr. G. M. 

 McKeowii, had exercised wiss discretion 

 in these matt' rs, and I followed the same 

 policy. 



During some foui' years great and 

 I'apid changes were ])erreptible in the 

 landscape through the o[i(>nin^' up of 

 neighboui'ing land for far/ning, and mv' 

 observations caused me to come to the conclusion tliat \\ilh tln' openini,' np 

 of the surrounding country, and the consequent destruction of the ext'iisive 

 and dense belts of forest growth, it would probaVily be fouml in couise of 

 time that some tro])ica1 plants would prove less satisfactory than tliev had 

 been in the past, unless care was taken by intending ])lanters to s-elect 

 situations in w^ll sheltered valleys, or, on the higher lands, )>reserve shelter 

 belts of sci'ub and forest, or, in the al)sence of indigeinus trees and slicubs, 

 measures were taken to plant suitalile (pnekl v-i:rowiiig ti'ees and shrubs. 



CofTee Branchlet : Fruit, Flowers, 

 and Foliage. 

 «. Fniit. 

 h. Section of Fruit. 



