LI B HA U V 



UNIVKUS1TY OF 



CALIFORNIA. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Climate required for Coffee High temperature not indispen- 

 sable Experiment in Germany Temperate Climate 

 required for profitable cultivation Humidity Eleva- 

 tion of 4000 to 5000 feet in Ceylon Under 3000 feet in 

 Wynaad Results compared Mean temperature re- 

 quired Temperature of Ceylon hills S. India districts 

 Land wind Favourite elevation in Ceylon Native 

 Coffee-gardens Below 1000 feet in Ceylon Neigh- 

 bourhood of Kandy Change in the Climate Tempera- 

 ture combined with moisture Weeds Black Bug Ele- 

 vation and Climate connected Malaria Fever The 

 Bamboo Effect of clearings The seasons January 

 to March June The Monsoon N.E. Monsoon 

 Aspect Wind Effects Remedial Measures The 

 Doombegas-tree. 



THAT the coffee plant can be induced to grow, and 

 even bear crop, in countries where frost and snow 

 prevail in winter, is proved by the following narra- 

 tive from "Dr. Willich's Encyclopaedia," on the 

 authenticity of which, he says, the reader may fully 

 rely : " A nobleman in Germany found, in a bag of 

 raw coffee, twenty green berries, resembling oblong 

 cherries, and each of which contained two beans. 

 In March, 1788, he planted them in a common 



