Chap. XXII. COFFEE-CULTIVATION. 373 



Hooliciil/ owned by Mr. Stiiiubauk. The highest part of his 

 estate is 5700 feet above the sea,^ and here he has twenty- 

 live acres planted in rather poor soil. Below his house there 

 are about forty-five more acres planted, down the steep slopes 

 of the hill, some of the bushes in very good bearing. They 

 are thick, as he is against pruning the branches, saying tliat 

 when covered by leafy branches the fruit ripens by degrees, 

 and consequently requu-es less labour in picking. The estate 

 has passed through several hands, and the oldest trees 

 were planted seventeen years ago. Mr. Stainbank expects 

 eventually to get fifty tons of coffee off this estate, in the 

 year. An acre will occasionally yield twenty-five hundred- 

 weight. 



The view from the house is very fine. The plantation 

 slopes away by a very steep descent, and in the distance are 

 the Lambton's Peak range of mountains, and the wide plains 

 of Coimbatore. 



Leaving Hoolicul, we again descended into the ravine of 

 Karteri, where the river passes close under the steep face of 

 the liills on which the station of Coonoor stands, and on the 

 slopes of the oi)posite mountains there are several coffee 

 estates. Mr. Dawson, a son of the landlord of the hotel at 

 Ootacamund, has 100 acres planted ; but the most extensive 

 estate, on the steep slopes overlooking the ghaut leading 

 down into the Coimbatore plains, beJongs to Mr. Stanes. He 

 has 200 acres planted with 250,000 trees, up the precipitous 

 sides of the mountain, facing east, and protected from the 

 excessive rains of the S.W. monsoon. The elevation above 

 the sea is upwards of 4800 feet. On the summits of the 

 mountains above this estate Mr. Stanes has induced the 



"• Uooli, a tiger in the Badaga Ian- I a Committee of the House of Commons, 

 guage ; aud cul, a rock or stone in gave 2.500 to 4000 feet as the most 

 Tamil and Cauarese. Pili is a tiger in favom-able elevation for the gi'owth of 

 Tamil. cutfoe. 



'" Mr. Fowler, in his evitleuce before | 



