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kind, the flower iss taken from a plant planted here 

 about three years ago, and which commenced to flower 

 last month, and are possibly the first of the kind to 

 flower in our colony ; they have so far borne one flower 

 only in the axles of the older leaves. The authors of all 

 the flowers which have opened have proved steril, no 

 seed has consequently been produced. When the next 

 flower open I will try to fertilize them with Pollen of 

 the ordinary variety (Coffea Arabica). Should this suc- 

 ceed a cross between the Liberian and ordinary variety 

 will be the result and 1 think this is a very desirable 

 plant to get hold of, as the Liberian kind appears to 

 me to grow much too strongly which on the other hand 

 our ordinary sorts require a little stirring up. I lately 

 received from Messrs. Christy of London about 300 

 Liberian coffee plants, and these are now being sold 

 at the gardens here for Rs 2.50 per half dozen, Christy 

 gaarantees the plants to be the true kind. 



I am sorry I cannot attend at the meeting of the 

 R. S. to-morrow, owing to pressure of work. 



Yours faithfully, 



N. Cantley. 



Des remerciements sent votes a M. N. Cantley 

 pour I'envoi de son Rapport sur les bois et forets 

 pour 1877. 



Le Dr. Regnaud donne une courte explication 

 sur la collection la plus complete des bois coloniaux qui 

 ait ete faite jusqu'ici et qui se trouve expoBee sur la 



