CHAPTER XVII. 



Shade necessary in hot climates Planters unwilling to re- 

 cognize this Native gardens Opinion changing Jack- 

 trees Various advantages of shade Objections Di- 

 minished production Reduced expenditure Descrip- 

 tion of trees Discrimination necessary The Jack In 

 the Mauritius Castor-oil plant Plantains Distance 

 apart Training. 



IT appears to me that the past history of coffee 

 cultivation in the East, if carefully looked into, 

 conclusively proves that in hot climates and where 

 prolonged seasons of drought may be expected to 

 recur, coffee will not flourish permanently except 

 under shade. The plant appears to affect shade 

 universally in a state of nature, never being found 

 growing wild (as far as my experience goes) except 

 under the protection of its parent trees, or in the 

 depths of the forest. This is the more remarkable, 

 that the seeds are commonly deposited by wild 

 animals and birds quite as freely on the open grass 

 lands adjacent to the plantations as in the forests. 



It seems curious that a- fact like this should not 

 from the first have forced itself into notice, but, so 



