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January and May, was nearly three times as much as 

 usually fell in Munzerabad during the same period. An 

 excessive rainfall is decidedly not required for coffee. 

 There is a vast difference between what a Planter calls 

 "growing" a,nd "heavy" weather. It is a fact worthy of 

 notice thafc early showers in blossoming time, if accompani- 

 ed with excessive thunder and lightning, and alternated 

 with sunshine, always produce a mature flower ; whereas a 

 copious downpour without atmospheric electricity, and ac- 

 companied with dull, sunless weather, invariably begets a 

 weak, ill formed blossom. Among the natives it has beea 

 particularly noticed that during the lasfcfew years the num- 

 ber of Bees has been greatly diminished, and although it 

 would be unreasonable to suggest that their absence has 

 seriously affected the yield ; still it may fairly be said, thafc 

 the vast swarms which generally appear and await the 

 blossoming, must have a most beneficial effect in the way 

 of fertilizing the flower. I have frequently counted 45 

 and 50 Hives on a single Forest tree in a Coffee Estate, 

 and when the flower was fully opened every tree appeared 

 well attended by bees. 



I merely mention these little facts to show that " a single 

 swallow does not make a summer" and that in regard to 

 coffee culture generally, that it is a number of little things 

 aggregated together that constitutes success, some are 

 controllable by man, and others are not, and it therefore de- 

 volves on every Planter, to make his arrangements to suit 

 the ordinary exigencies of local requirements. 



In conclusion I would wish clearly to impress upon all 

 who may pay me the compliment of reading these remarks , 

 and the annexed lists of trees suitable and useless for shade 

 purposes, that the subject generally is well worthy of ma- 

 ture consideration, and I trust that before removing a single 

 tree either good, bad, or indifferent, that due and careful 



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