CHAPTEK VIII. 

 PLANTING. 



No attempt should be made to go in for 

 coffee cultivation unless one has sufficient 

 capital to keep it up for three or four years, 

 referring to Arabian coffee. The soil in which 

 coffee is to be cultivated must be rich in phos- 

 phoric acid and potash. The estimated coldest 

 temperature that coffee is capable of standing 

 is 42 deg. Fahr. It is believed that an altitude 

 where the mean temperature is from 65 deg. 

 to 75 deg. Fahr., with an annual rainfall of 

 100 inches, is the best for growing coffee. 



If it is intended to top the trees when they 

 have reached 4J ft. high, then a sufficient 

 distance for planting is 6 ft. by 6 ft. If, 

 however, they are left to grow to a height of 

 from 6 ft. to 8 ft., then they must be planted 

 wider apart. 



As a rule, Arabian coffee trees commence 

 to bear fruit the third year they have been 

 planted that is, the fourth year from seed. 

 Each tree should give from three-quarters of a 

 pound to half a pound of merchantable coffee, 

 although the average of a developed tree is from 

 1J Ibs. to 2 Ibs. that is to say, in the seventh 



