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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. - 
No. 47.] NOVEMBER. [1890. 
CLXXV.—LIBERIAN COFFEE. 
About 1872 Sir Joseph Hooker had his attention directed to a large 
berried coffee which occurred wild in Liberia but had been introduced - 
into cultivation at the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone. 
From the latter colony Sir John Pope Hennessy, then Governor of 
the West Africa Settlements, sent nine plants to Kew in 1872. 
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The plants raised from these seeds at Kew were the first grown in 
this country. In the following year Mr. Bull, the well-known nursery- —— 
man of Chelsea, imported living plants. In 1874 and 1876 larger 
supplies of seed were obtained at Kew direct from Liberia, through. 
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