PLANTING. 



Transplanting to the permanent site may be done in the spring, 

 when the plants are 1 year old, or delayed another year, the plants 

 in the meantime being transferred to nursery rows. Better plants 

 are secured by once transplanting in the nursery, but as a measure 

 of economy they should be set out in the forest site the first year. 



When making a forest plantation of coffeetree, it should be com- 

 bined with such species as white elm, red elm, hackberry, oaks, and 

 ashes. If planted several years previous to its associates, it may be 

 mixed with hardy catalpa, Russian mulberry, or black locust. The 

 growth and habits of the coffeetree in the Southwest are very similar 

 to the growth and habits of the black walnut, and one may be sub- 

 stituted for the other in almost any plantation. 



CULTIVATION AND CARE. 



Plantations should be cultivated for the first two or three years if 

 on tillable ground. In the prairie regions cultivation will be abso- 

 lutely necessary for several years after planting in order to con- 

 serve soil moisture, since young cofFeetrees provide very little shade. 



The plantation must of course be protected from fire and the in- 

 roads of stock. In case of any serious insect attack specimens should 

 be sent to the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture for identification and suggestions as to control. 



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