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NOTES OF TRAVEL. IV. 
COFFEE GROWING IN BRAZIL AND THE GIANT JEQUITIBA TREES. 
Ir was the writer’s pleasure to accompany Colonel Charles Page 
Bryan, American minister to Brazil, on a visit to Sao Paulo and one of 
its large coffee estates. Santos, the port of Sado Paulo, and therefore 
the greatest coffee port of the world, is connected by an excellent line 
of railway with the latter. Sao Paulo isa rapidly growing town of 
some 65,000 inhabitants and is surrounded by many square miles of 
plantations of Arabian coffee. 
The geological and geographical commission of the state of Sao 
Paulo is situated here at the capitol, and Dr. Orville Derby, a gradu- 
ate of Cornell, is its originator and present chief. Under Dr. Derby’s 
direction a botanical department has been established and an eco- 
nomic botanic garden started. with Mr. Alberto Léfgren at its head, a 
competent and thoroughly enthusiastic Swedish botanist. Mr. Lofgren 
is assisted by a systematist, Mr. Gustavo Edwall, who has charge of 
the rapidly increasing herbarium, and also by a young Belgian gar- 
dener. ; 
At Tremembé, an hour’s ride by steam train from the city, is the 
young botanic garden, now with about four acres in cultivation and 
many more available, a small laboratory, cold frames, and a convenient 
house for orchids and other shade loving plants. In this garden Mr. 
Léfgren is planting native forage plants, fruit trees, and ornamentals, 
with the view of introducing them into Brazilian culture. As in all 
new countries, the field here for such work is quite open, and this 
garden, if properly supported, will be of great importance to the 
country. 
The best varieties of East Indian mangoes, the southern varieties 
of alfalfa, and the best sorts of oranges are all quite unknown in this 
immense region that is so admirably suited to their cultivation, and to 
that of many other economic plants. The pioneer work of plant 
introduction has scarcely been begun in Sao Paulo, and will not make 
much progress until coffee ceases to be what wheat is in our prairie 
states, the one lucrative crop. 
At the invitation of Dr. Eduardo Prado, owner of one of the 
largest coffee estates, as well as owner and editor of one of the promi- 
nent newspapers in Brazil, Minister Bryan and his party spent a day 
on the Berg6n coffee estate, some eight hours’ ride by train from Sao 

