CHAPTER II. 



SOIL AND CLIMATE. 



As a general rule, it is said, the best zone of 

 latitude for Coffee is 150 on each side of the 

 equator, of altitude from 3,000 to 4,500 feet. 

 The deeper, freer, and richer the soil is the 

 better. It should be specially tested for phos- 

 phoric acid ami" potash. The latter will be in 

 abundance when a large forest has been felled, 

 but burned grass land must be very good to grow 

 Coffee. 



Soil and climate are subjects of primitive 

 importance if '~6uF~garden is to succeed and our 

 crops to be bumper ones. 



Looking at soil from an annalist's point of 

 view, says Pogson, we find it consists of an 

 organic part, which placed in the fire will burn 

 away, and an inorganic or mineral part, which 

 will not. The constitution of the first is well 

 known. It is formed by remains of animals, 

 insects, minute visible and invisible organisms 

 of various kinds, from the dung of animals, 

 birds, caterpillars, and worms, and from the 

 roots, stems, and leaves of decayed vegetables. 

 The inorganic part consists of sand, clay, lime, 



