96 FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



V. 



Coffee. — Liberian Coffee {Coffea libericd) has de- 

 servedly secured a world-wide reputation, and seems 

 to tend so far to bestow by its introduction for 

 cultivation and export more prospects of wealth to 

 other countries than to its own, and to engage 

 deservedly, as to its worth, the attention and energy 

 of aliens rather than of natives. It is indigenous to 

 the forests of the country embraced within the Republic 

 of Liberia, and indeed beyond ; but of the exports of 

 this article from that State I am unable now to afford 

 statistics. 



According to Reports of Kew 1882 and previous 

 years, Liberia coffee has been introduced therefrom 

 with marked success and advantage into Fiji, Grenada, 

 Natal, Queensland, Jamaica, Nilgiris, Sechelles, Mau- 

 ritius, Ceylon, where (at Kew) the policy of a general 

 and generous distribution of this plant, as of others, 

 is properly advocated and pursued. " Eggs-in-the- 

 basket " policy has had to be set aside. 



In a useful pamphlet periodical for October, 1882, 

 entitled the African Repository, and published monthly 

 by the American Colonization Society, there will be 



