n6 COFFEE: ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



noting down the result will lead on to making further 

 observations, and the comparison of notes among ourselves 

 will add to the mass of general information. But above all 

 things have in you a reason for what you do founded upon 

 accurate experiment." 



This work, in fact, requires care and a knowledge 

 of the estate, and what may be looked for from it 

 in the way of nourishment for the trees. Pruning 

 in gardens where the handling has been constant 

 and careful will be a much lighter and pleasanter 

 work than where it has been neglected. 



Should the planter come into charge of bushes 

 never under the knife, and are almost hopeless 

 tangles of twig and branch, he should then pro- 

 ceed cautiously, clearing out the centre of the tree 

 one year, and removing all suckers from above or 

 below, while the next year he may select his crop- 

 bearing wood and take out all cross-growing and 

 superfluous material. 



In all pruning operations it should be re- 

 membered that roots and leaves are intimately 

 related, and anything the one experiences will be 

 inevitably felt by the other. 



" Toping" can be done for Rs. 2 per acre, 

 and the work should be carried out just as the 

 green bark is turning brown. Pruning and handling 

 will probably come to between Rs. 10 and Rs. 14 

 per acre. 



