COFFEE I ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



adopt the plan of building rough sheds to harbour 

 the plants when first moved into the baskets. 



The number of trees that the nursery must 

 supply depends on the distances to be between each 

 bush. The following table will make this clear : 



DISTANCES, &c., OF PLANTS. 



Thus if we plant 41 by 4^ we shall want 2,151 

 seedlings per acre, and say a couple of hundred 

 over for failures; if 5 by 5, then 1,742 will do; if 

 7 by 8, only 778, and so on. 5 by 5 may be taken 

 as a good average distance, varying as suggested in 

 a previous chapter. 



"Stumps" are those plants that have thrown 

 out their first " primary" branches. When taken 



