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carefully the character of the vegetation on land 

 adjacent to some highly productive plantation 

 already under cultivation, in order to use this as a 

 guide. Other land producing the same kind of plants 

 would doubtless turn out equally well adapted for 

 coffee. 



Further, soil to be rich must contain suitably 

 admixed proportions of sand, clay, and decomposed 

 organic matter ; and next, due proportions of 

 coherence, friability, and power of evaporation and 

 absorption, the latter being especially necessary in 

 hot or dry climates. 



LIBRA R V 



UNJVKUSITY OF 



CALIFORNIA. 



