Coffee Planting. 



A paper in Blackwood's Magazine, entitled " Be- 

 verages we infuse," has the following on this 

 point: "The Coffea Arabica, from its being the 

 principal producer of coffee, is the chief and most 

 useful species, but besides this others are culti- 

 vated in other parts of the world, on account of 

 their commercial value, all of which, though now 

 regarded as separate species, owe their origin to 

 the Coffea Arabica:' 



The attention of the planters of Ceylon and 

 S. India has, during recent years, been directed 

 towards the species of coffee grown in Liberia, 

 in Western Africa. This species, which we may 

 meantime call the C. Liberiana, possesses a larger 

 leaf, and indeed is altogether of larger growth, 

 than the C. Arabica. It is also understood to be 

 capable of a higher degree of productiveness, and 

 to possess the advantage of being suited for culture 

 in low-lying situations with a high temperature, 

 and in light, sandy soils where the C. Arabica 

 would not flourish. It seems also to be hoped 

 that the introduction of a new and naturally more 

 robust species into South India and Ceylon, may, 

 through the natural hybridism which it is to be 

 presumed would follow, prove a means of combat- 

 ing the "leaf-disease," "bug," and other blights, 

 the devastations of which have of late years proved 

 so alarming and disastrous ; or, failing this, that 



