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Information abovJ the Coffee Trer. 



AN ERROR CORRECTED, AND SOME INFORMATION 

 ABOUT THE COFFEE TREE. 



BY ISAAC nEAGLES. 



An eastern rural paper has recently been regaling its readers 

 with a story of success having been realized in growing the cof- 

 fee plant in the State of Maine ; other papers have reiterated the 

 report, and it is generally received as a piece of truthful informa- 

 tion. The coffee tree can no more be grown in Maine, as a hardy 

 plant, than the Orange tree. The only portion of the United 

 States Avhich has ripened the coffee berry is the State of Florida. 

 On the higlicr land bordering the Gulf of ]\rexico it could doulH- 

 Icss be grown with snccoss and ]irofit. 



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COGUES ML&lK);i.\G VOW WORK IX TIIK CUiFKE GKOUNDS. 



Tlic coffee tree, where indigenous, grows quite large. I have 

 seen them in Rio Janeiro planted in door-yards for the shade 

 which they afford. When cultivated for the berry, it is not per- 

 mitted to grow to a greater height than nine or ten feet, it being 

 cut back annually. It bears two crops in a year ; the spring 

 crop, however, is considered the best, being nearly twice the size 

 of the fall crop. 



There is a climbing legu?ninosce plant called chick pea or coffee 



