THE PLANT. 



berries, which have never been equalled by any 

 achievement of scientific cultivation. Ljberian 

 Coffee, on the other hand, is freer of growth, as is 

 natural to a plant whose habitat is among the 

 alluvial flats of low altitudes ; the leaves are broad 

 and abundant, the berries big and somewhat coarse: 

 they pay the planter who sells by gross weight 

 better than the finer product, but make a poor 

 beverage. The third, or so-called Arabian Coffee, 

 is the plant most generally cultivated, and holds 

 an intermediate place between the former, both 

 in point of growth and intrinsic value of its 

 yield. 



A new Coffee, that may be of importance in the 

 future, called " Maagpgirje," has lately been dis- 

 covered in Brazil, and a Commission was formed to 

 investigate the qualities of the Coffee and also of 

 the plant, and they decided entirely in its favour. 

 Not only does it produce a greater crop, but the 

 Coffee berry is much larger, and possesses a very 

 silky - looking smooth surface, with high quality 

 flavour. It stands well on the high lands, and the 

 first planters who have adopted it in Brazil are so 

 delighted with the results that they are cutting 

 down their splendid Coffee trees of the older kind 

 of Coffee and planting this new " Maragogipe " 

 variety. A gentleman who has just returned from 

 visiting many of the higher estates in Brazil found 

 the planters speaking in the highest terms of this 

 new species of Coffee. Von Glehn, of London, 



