JOTTINGS ON COFFEE 



AND 



ITS CULTURE IN MYSORE. 



CHAPTEH L 



THEORETIC! AL AND GENERAL REMARKS OH 

 LEAF DISEASE AND ROT. 



There are many circumstances connected with and at- 

 tending peculiar phases in the life of man and plants which 

 are analogous, but when considered minutely are found to 

 be either^ brought about by very different causes, or by 

 means of a mysterious nature. There are many however 

 worked out in a precisely similar Way, having both the 

 cause and the effect distinctly traceable to well denned phe- 

 nomena. In the first instance it is no doubt owing to the 

 well ascertained facts, that certain things good for man are 

 bad for the plants, and what is really food for the plant, is 

 positively pernicious to the life of man. In the second in- 

 stance such essentials as light, air, water and certain inor- 

 ganic substances are as necessavv *-p the being of a man as 

 to that of a plant. However tms may be, it is extremely 

 difficult, and indeed, in some cases' impossible, to regulate 

 cultivation in practice, entirely according to data furnished, 

 by experience, or agricultural experiments, as Nature as it 

 were, always appears to be prepared to thwart the efforts of 

 man by some hidden means, and man finds, that however 

 carefully he may work, there is always some peculiar condi- 

 tion arrived at, which either induces, or actually produces, 

 effects which call for scientific investigation, and chemical 



