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incision, into which the inilk is poured, and from 

 time to time, as the man, or woman, or boy, goes 

 round, the milk may be collected and brought into the 

 factory. The tree gives no trouble beyond the planting, 

 and, if it is required, crops of vegetables, &c. can be 

 grown between the trees. It is one of the hardiest trees 

 in India., and grows without cultivation. Wherever a 

 squirrel, crow, &c. may drop a seed, there will grow up 

 a tree. Since 1840 this tree has been very extensively 

 cultivated in India, and a large portion of the East In- 

 dian sugar is made from it. There may be 300 trees 

 or more planted to the acre. It yields no fruit, and 

 may be looked upon as an ornamental gigantic sugar- 

 cane. 



THE COFFEE PLANT. 



To introduce this plant successfully, would be doing a 

 great service to America. The question some would put 

 is, would it succeed in America 1 Many experimentalists 

 \\uuld answer in the negative. However, there is an old 

 saying, give the old fellow his due, and to a useful article, 

 give it more than its due; give every care and atten- 

 tion to those productions that are so valuable. The 

 consumption in America is 145,000,000 Ibs. and in 

 England is, say nearly 37,000,000 Ibs., (this was the con- 

 sumption in 1846); there can be no great increase in the 

 amount, there being in the last years so extensive an adul- 

 teration of this article. France consumes say 50,000,000 

 Ibs.* These numbers will show the quantity of coffee 

 that must be used throughout the world, if some eighty 

 millions of French, English, and Americans consume 



* In 1841, the consumption was 45,000,000 lh>s. 



