Elevation must ever be an important consideration ; 

 though we have no doubt that by the use of manures coffee 

 might be made to do well and bear to a limited extent at the 

 level of the sea in Ceylon. We believe this to be, however, 

 so completely ^tificial, that it will never again be tried whilst 

 land is available from 1500 feet and upwards of elevation, 

 where the plant grows vigorously without more than ordi- 

 nary care being bestowed. The general effect of eleva- 

 tion may be described very shortly ; the lower ranges, with 

 fair soil, produce the heaviest crops and the soonest after 

 planting, whilst the plantations on higher elevations produce 

 smaller crops, but a finer quality of produce, and take a 

 longer time to come into full bearing. There are many cir- 

 cumstances which go to produce climate, besides differences 

 of elevation. On a plantation formed in a large district of 

 forest yet uncleared, the climate will be colder and more 

 moist than when the formation of other estates has cleared 

 away the forest around it. The proximity of a high moun- 

 tain peak, or being situated on the shoulder of a mountain 

 which towers to a great elevation above the level of the plan- 

 tation, will also produce more cold and wet than if the garden 

 were opened on a lower range and to the full height of such 

 a position. Plate 4, for instance, shows such a locality in 

 the view of Konda-galla estate, near Neura-ellia, Ceylon. 

 At low elevations long continued dry weather is more fre- 

 quent than on the higher ranges, inasmuch as the clouds are 

 frequently broken by the distant hills before they reach ; and 

 when there is no rain about, estates on the higher ranges 

 are less parched, and atmospherically enjoy a nroisture 

 of which the lower hills are destitute. Still these various 

 conditions are only advantageous or hurtful under varying 

 circumstances ; high elevation, cold and wet, and low eleva- 

 tion, teat, and drought, are alike unfavourable as prevailing 

 characteristics; it is their due and seasonable admixture 



