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plete, would be to pass forward the whole of the cherry coffee 

 from the hopper, as clean parchment coffee, into the cistern, 

 and completely separate the pulp. Instead of this, not only 

 is there much coifee passed forward unpulped, which has to 

 be returned to the hopper, but much pulp comes forward 

 with the coffee into the cistern. To overcome these imper- 

 fections, many hands are required attending the process of 

 pulping ; several with sieves receive all the coffee as it conies 

 through the trough into the cistern, and remove all the pulp 

 in it. The object of this is to please the sight by making 

 the sample even, and to take away a material which both 

 renders the coffee difficult to dry, and, being decomposed 

 vegetable matter of a saccharine nature, is liable by fermenta- 

 tion to injure the quality of the coffee itself. The coffee 

 which is passed unpulped, : having been returned to the 

 hopper as it accumulates at' the end of the pulper riddle, 

 until the picking has all been pulped, is sometimes passed 

 through another pulper, set closer, and what then remains 

 is dried separately in the husk. The imperfections. of the 

 pulper have recently attracted much notice, and improve- 

 ments are making in it. 



We now arrive at the crowning operation of all Planting. 

 Economy should be studied in every part of the work, and to 

 plant to the best advantage, nothing is more conducive than 

 having the traces of the roads and paths through the clearings 

 already opened if possible, so as to be available for bringing 

 the plants from the nurseries. Plants and stumps are both 

 used in forming plantations ; the first are seedlings, reared 

 in nurseries until they are about 8 to 10 inches high, or just 

 crowned that is, after the appearance of their first lateral 

 branches ; the second are the stock aud roots of an older tree. 

 Under varying circumstances there is much to be said in 

 favour of each. If the weather is dry and the season advanced, 

 stumps may be planted with less risk, and in less time ; but 



