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COCOA : ALL ABOUT IT. 



Close to the Cacao plants are small shade plants to protect them 

 for a few months : further off are the bananas and plantains, one 

 between each Cacao plant, to last for about two or three years ; 



Copy of an old engraving (said to be the oldest in existence relating to Cocoa) showing the way in which the Cocoa 

 Tree is shaded by other larger trees. {From Bontekoe's Wnrks.) 



and lastly there come the permanent shade trees, at distances of 

 39 or 40 feet, which at the end of three or four years will be the 



