HISTORY OF PRODUCTS 15 



The Entebbe Cocoa, planted in 1901, bore a crop 

 in 1906, that is at five years old. Plantations at 

 Kivuvu on a more extensive scale have had a 

 similarly satisfactory result. The whole of the 

 Cocoa in Uganda has come from the Entebbe trees 

 and their progeny. 



Coffee. Two varieties of Coffea arabica are 

 grown in the country, namely, ' Nyassa " and 

 "Bourbon." 



The "Nyassa" variety was introduced from 

 Nyassaland to Kampala about 1900 by the late 

 Mr. A. Whyte, at that time head of the Scientific 

 Department in Uganda. There has been no 

 further introduction of "Nyassa" seed, and all 

 the coffee of this kind in Uganda is from the 

 original Kampala stock. The "Bourbon" variety 

 was brought in a few years later by the French 

 missionaries, probably from East Africa, where 

 these missionaries had grown it for many years. 



Uganda itself had more than one indigenous 

 species of Coffee; and the new kinds quickly 

 showed that they had found congenial conditions. 

 Both varieties grow very rapidly, and produce a 

 first small crop in two-and-a-half years from the 

 time of sowing. The trees may be said to have 



