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Pusa just before the coffee-flowering season, it will be practically 
impossible for me to leave again at once to come down for these 
experiments. I might be able to take over charge by telegraph and 
remain down until after the experiments, but this course would 
require special Government sanction. In any case, at present, I can- 
not make any definite arrangements about my own share until I hear | 
reliable news about my successor. I would propose, however, that— 
(a) The Government Entomologist (either myself, if still here, 
or my successor, if he has then arrived) should carry out one set of 
the experiments in the Shevaroys. 
(b) The Assistant in Mysore (Mr. Frattini) should carry out one 
set in the Bababudins. 
(c) The Assistant in Coorg (Mr. Jonas) should carry out one set 
in South Coorg. 
‘“* A second experimenter in each district will therefore be required 
to carry out the duplicate set of experiments, and I shall be glad if you 
will be good enough to ask the secretaries of the planters’ associations 
concerned to secure a reliable volunteer in each district and to let me 
know his name and address so that the necessary apparatus may be 
sent to him direct. 
“Should I be relieved before the flowering season and allowed to 
stay down here to carry out these experiments, I would suggest that 
I should myself revisit the Pollibetta district in Coorg and make an 
extra set of experiments and observations in that district. As, how- 
ever, it is at present doubtful whether this will be possible I cannot 
offer to replace one of the regular experimenters and my functions 
would only be supplementary to theirs ” 
(iii) Time of flowering-season. 
“I understand that the flowering season of coffee, which is very 
short—only of three or four days’ duration at the utmost— follows 
about ten days after the early rains, commonly called blossom showers, 
and that these usually arrive any time between about 20th March and 
10th April. 
“ T do not know whether there is much variation in the coincidence 
of these blossom showers in the three districts concerned , but I would. 
recommend that the secretaries of the planters’ associations concerned 
should inform me by telegraph (a) when the banking of clouds seems 
to herald the approach of these showers, and (6) when the showers 
actually fall, giving in the second case an estimate of t 
which the blossom will be open. stimate of the date on 
“ From here the Shevaroys are distant roughl 
ghly one day, the Baba- 
budins three days, and South Coorg four days, and the Serene ins 
and observers should be ready two or three days beforehand. At the 
same time the secretaries should similarly warn the local assistants 
and volunteer helpers to be in readiness. 
“ The first information required above under heading (a) would 
enable me to get touring apparatus, etc., prepared and, if necessary, 
to recall to head-quarters any of my staff ‘ 
and be required for the work. 7 y staff who might then be away 
