Q2 COFFEE I ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



called by Tamils " Kattu Pilavoo," and in Telugu 

 " Panasa Rurra." This tree has many good points 

 to recommend it. First of all, Jack stands in the 

 first class as a timber tree. The wood is a bright, 

 clear yellow, polishing well. My first set of furniture 

 as a "chick doree " in the jungle was after this 

 kind, and light and handsome it looked i It stands 

 changes of climate remarkably. 



I noticed when watching native building opera- 

 tions that Jack- wood was used invariably for doors 

 and their framings, and for window casings every- 

 where, in fact, where it was important to have a 

 wood which would not expand or contract with the 

 varying seasons. Both for rough work or for fine 

 "cabinet" uses this tree is of value, and if we can 

 grow a tree of value in itself as well as suitable to the 

 purpose of its planting, we may as well have it. In 

 growth Jack equals the largest English elms, in thick 

 jungle often running up a beautifully straight stem to 

 the first branches. As a deep subsoil feeder, again, 

 it acts like a powerful " pump " (if the last words of 

 the savants are to be accepted), raising stores of 

 moisture from deep natural reservoirs far below 

 ground, and holding them suspended amongst its 

 leaves for its own benefit and that of all low-growing 

 shrubs. Demanding little or no nourishment from 

 surface soil a point of much importance, we need 

 not say, as we must not import a rival in this matter 

 to our Coffee the numberless leaves of this tree, 

 on the contrary, supply a perpetual top-dressing of 



