FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



matured by age. The general verdict of the gentlemen 

 brought together at this time appears to be that 

 Liberian coffee promises to play a most important 

 part in coffee culture, and will be well to the front in 

 competition with all other descriptions, as soon as the 

 general taste becomes educated for fuller bodied 

 though less delicate flavour than now produced from 

 Ceylon and East Indian Plantation coffee." 



I have quoted the foregoing from Mr. Morris's 

 Report alluded to. That gentleman adds : — 



" The information given in the last two sections of 

 his Paper as regards the yield of Liberian coffee trees 

 and the commercial value of the produce, will doubt- 

 less lead to the conclusion that this coffee possesses 

 characteristics which according to the circumstances 

 of a country may be utilised to an extent now 

 unthought of In the first place, the fact that this 

 coffee will grow on the plains, where the preliminary 

 expenses in the acquisition and clearing of land are 

 naturally much lower than on the hills, where labour 

 is cheaper and where the difficulties and expenses of 

 transport would be avoided, gives Liberian coffee an 

 advantage not only over its congener the Arabian 

 coffee, but also over almost any cultivation requiring 

 the same capital and attention. 



The prolific yield of this coffee is also a character- 

 istic much dwelt upon. . . . There can be therefore no 

 doubt that in Liberia the coffee yields, according to 

 the nature of the cultivation, at the rate of from 8 to 



