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set the blossom ; which, moreover, has the further advantage of 
fading and falling off within the day of its opening, so that it 
is hardly possible that it can be injured by rain or hail as is so 
often the ease with the delicate Arabica blossom. Even in the 
very driest season, when the other plants appear on the point of 
destruction, these look cool and green and not turning a leaf. 
6. That the cost of cultivation is comparatively little. There is 
_ no pruning to do beyond pulling off the suckers for two or three 
years to prevent the tree from running up into too many stems, 
the crop is carried on the same wood (and extensions of it) year 
after year, and there is, therefore, no old wood to cut out. The 
Against these good points we may set the following :— 
1. That this species gives very little return till at least the fifth 
year, while in low-lying districts some return is got from Arabica 
in the second year. 
2, That the value in the London market, from a sample lately sent 
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season is in March and April, the crop instead of beginning to 
ripen in October and finishing in January or February takes a 
whole 14 months to ripen. The flowering season is the same 
as the other, but though some berries will turn ripe in the fol- 
lowing April much of it will not be ready to gather until July. 
Thus, the tree carries two crops at the same time, and all mixed 
together in the same branches. Sometimes at the end of the 
spring we may see at the same time the crop of the previous 
the current season the size s, and a further sprinkling of 
the curious eight-petalled, heavily scented blossoms as e as 
the palm of a child’s hand. All these mixed together among 
the large dark, glossy leaves, give the tree a most rich and hand- 
some appearance, 
There are now one or two points about which some information may 
be of interest. 
dropping it all on the ground, and collecting afterwards into baskets. 
EU takes our bushels of these huge cherries to make one of parchment 
(instead of two as with Arabica), but even so, the fruit being so large, a 
ton of clean would be much the same. 
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Ceylon for Liberian coffee, and have no doubt that they are as effective 
I have tried experiments on a small scale with my cherry, and found 
= that it was no use to pass the stuff through an ordinary dise pulper (set 
