54 THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OP COFFEE. 



abundant in rather dry localities, and is not so trouble- 

 some in virgin forest land as in what has been already 

 described as bamboo land. 



Far more destructive, however, than the borer is 

 the coffee-bug, a full description of which will be found 

 in the succeeding chapter, which embodies the report 

 made by Dr. Gardner to the Ceylon Government on 

 the subject, and which is given at length in the very 

 able work on the island lately published by Sir Emerson 

 Tennent. It is somewhat remarkable that although 

 the bug has appeared in all the coffee growing districts 

 of India, it has never proved really destructive except 

 in the district of Coorg, where it has almost caused the 

 abandoning of some estates; but in Wynaad, the 

 Neilgherries, and Mysore, it has never given cause for 

 anxiety, as its appearance has been only partial, and it 

 does not spread and engross the estates in the manner 

 it has been found to do in Ceylon. 



