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to form for all general purposes a highly efficient and 

 easily maintained system of general routine, and as such, 

 should be more generally adopted, particularly in regard 

 to Coffee in which no scientific system has been attempted 

 from the first. It is necessary to remark, in order to pre- 

 vent all chance of misunderstanding, that Coffee cultivated 

 as it is in Mysore under shade, is much less tractable than 

 when grown in the open as it is in all neighbouring Pro- 

 vinces. Under shade it is simply useless to hope for success 

 by the adoption of an elaborate system of training, as how- 

 ever well the shade may be distributed, a very large per- 

 centage of plants in immediate proximity to the Forest 

 trees must of necessity require different treatment 

 to those, that being farther removed, are merely laterally 

 protected from the sun's rays at different periods of the 

 day. Any attempt to produce a heavy crop on a few 

 well arranged branches, as in the open, will undoubtedly 

 result in a failure, and it has farther been fully demons- 

 trated, that under shade, the joints of the bearing wood 

 are longer, and the clusters of berries smaller, than those 

 produced in the open. The growth of wood all through 

 Mysore is very rapid, and it is absolutely necessary to re- 

 member what is clearly laid down in the extract from 

 the Dictionary of Daily Wants relative to a " sufficient 

 leaf-surface for the elaboration of the Sap" I will even 

 go further and say, that much must be done by careful 

 watching, and wherever vigor is apparent, arrangements 

 should be made to grow a correspondingly larger amount 

 of shoots but of course such must be done in moderation. 

 When the leaf surface is sufficient to " carry and utilize" 

 the amount of sap contained in the tree suckers and con- 

 stant flushes of new shoots which necessitate perpetual hand- 

 ling, are considerably restrained, the sap being appropria- 

 ted by the selected shoots left for the purpose of producing 

 crop. Under good cultivation the vertical sucker must be 

 considered the " Safety valve" indicating the necessities 

 of the tree, and after a tree has been cropped and pruned 



