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and plains, now without trees and water? What amount of timber 
might not be grown on the desert ridges? A few years would com- 
pletely change the aspect of those countries, so near to the seats of an- 
cient industry and learning; and afford vast means for human settlement, 
and activity, and support. FERDINAND MUELLER. 
Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Oct. 24. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
A Treatise on the Nature and Cultivation of Coffee ; with some remarks 
on the Management and Purchase of Coffee Estates. By Arthur 
R. W. Lascelles. London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston. 1865. 
This pamphlet contains some practical hints about the cultivation of 
Coffee, by the Managing Director of the Moyar Coffee Company, who, 
* during his planting experience of nearly a quarter of a century,"—in 
the East Indies, we presume,—has frequently had occasion to regret the 
absence of such information as is here sought to be afforded.” The 
total quantity of Coffee consumed in Great Britain in 1864, was about 
35,000,000 1b., of which nearly 30,000,000 Ib. was the produce of 
India and Ceylon. The total exports into Europe amount now to 
about 290,000,000 Ib. France alone consumes one-sixth of the total 
production of the world. The Eastern hemisphere appears quite to 
have. taken the place of the Western. In 1809 the exports from 
Jamaica alone exceeded 83,000,000 Ib., whilst at present they do not 
reach 6,000,000 1b, In British Guiana the exports have fallen in a 
lie manner from 9,472,000 Ib. to nothing, scarcely sufficient being 
now grown for the consumption of the colony. In Portorico the pro- 
duction has slightly increased, but Brazil, which in 1859 exported 
2,026,819 bags, now only exports less than a million and a half. 
It is strange that Coffee should be called “ Kahwah " in the Abys- 
Sinian province of Cafe (see Harris's * Highlands of Ethiopia, and 
that the same name (Kahwah=Kawa or Kava) should be applied by 
the Polynesians to their favourite 
: beverage and the plant from which it 
is derived (Macropiper methysticum). 
Outlines of Elementary Botany. For the Use of Students. By Alex- 
ander Silver, M.A., C.M., M.D. London: Henry Renshaw. 1866. 
This book is what it professes to be, an introduction to the larger 
