264 COFFEE : ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



Prospect, and Oaklands, fine patches of Coffee, 

 somewhat neglected and unpruned, it is true, indi- 

 cate the capabilities of the island to grow, in 

 sheltered hollows, a fair quantity of very good 

 Coffee. The extent of land actually suitable for 

 Coffee is, however, small. 



A lady traveller has spoken enthusiastically of 

 the appearance of some shrubs planted in the 

 Canary Islands, and a plantation has been estab- 

 lished by a landowner in the neighbourhood of 

 Rome. It is stated that he realized a fair profit 

 with this year's harvest, which consisted of two 

 tons of Coffee per hectare ; but such facts are 

 hardly more than curiosities, we fancy. 



AFRICA, 



However, is the real home of the plant, where it 

 has always been indigenous, and Caffra, the district 

 whence it takes its universal name, was but the 

 place whence it overflowed into Arabia and the 

 outside world. 



English enterprise has never yet done justice by 

 equatorial Africa. Small quantities of Coffee are 

 grown along the eastern coast, in Abyssinia, the 

 Somali country, Mozambique, Madagascar, Natal, 

 Reunion, and Mauritius ; but the total yield, so 

 far as its influence upon the supply of Europe and 

 the United States is concerned, is insignificant, as 

 the export capacity of all the places named did 



