210 TIMEHRI. 
With reference to the report itself it is not very edifying and is in 
parts distinétly misleading, though rather comic. 
To begin with—in se€tion I it is stated that the sample of Coffee was 
grown on the coast lands of British Guiana. This is misleading—as 
the Canal lands cannot be classed in the same category as the coast 
lands proper, owing to the atmospheric conditions being so markedly 
different—especially with reference to the very heavy dews at night 
(which the Coffee plant revels in) and the absence of the scorching 
salt wind by day, which latter is so prevalent on the seaboard. 
In se€tion 2 we are next solemnly told—quite as a discovery—that the 
cultivation of Coffee on the already-mentioned and misnamed coast 
lands is “ perfe&tly praCticable.” Now, considering that Coffee was the 
principal produét of this Colony before sugar was ever started here, and 
as one only has to refer to the annals of the Colony to see how largely 
it was grown in the No. 1 Canal and other suitable vzver distri€ts, this 
information is indeed wonderful, and is about on a par with the strange 
dissertations that have been appearing lately in the local press on the 
subject of Coffee growing in this Colony. Why, my father remembers 
that little property called “ Java,” on Canal No. 1—which at the time 
was entirely in Creole (“ Arabian ”) Coffee—changing hands with only a 
handful of slaves, for £30,000! I myself have been growing both 
Liberian and Creole Coffee in the Canal District for a considerable 
number of years, and as Messrs. Lewis & Peatt’s report on my sample 
appears to have led some people to think that this is the first time 
Liberian Coffee grown here has been sent to England, I may mention 
that I have been shipping the same to London off and on now for some 
years, and my shipments have been very ably disposed of, at prices more 
satisfa€tory than those now quoted by Messrs. Lewis & Peatt. 
Regretting that Mr. Morris has not been able to give us some informa- 
tion that would be of some material assistance to the few present Coffee 
growers in the Colony. 
I am, Sir, &c., 
THOS. GARNETT. 
The President mentioned that the letter referred to 
had been written by Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, and not by 
Dr. Morris. 
Mr. Jacob Conrad spoke of the way cotton and coffee 
were grown in the colony by their predecessors. 
