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kind of coffee will carry nothing but a dead Me es colour an 
matter how the curing may be done: If allowed to dry in som 
heavy peeler might perhaps break it up, but it seems to me as hard aiit 
tough as the very best road metal, and I much doubt whether a coffee- 
curing firm would undertake it on the usual terms. As regards the 
drinking qualities of this variety, I can safely say that no one who had 
ii previously been told would know that he was not mild the 
ucka article, the same quantity of powder „goes further and cannot 
in 
shops) natives decline to buy it. “ This one kind bad imitation ae gf 
they will say, but if you smash it up and mix a little dirt with it they 
will take it readily, and never find out the difference E. 
Planting.—Owing to the seedling throwing dta a strong, deep, tap 
e , something like that of a jack tree, I am inclined to think that 
a plantation has to be made it would be better to have the pits 
hide ready by May, and then to put one or more seeds in each pit as 
early in the south-west monsoon as possible, so that the seedlings may _ 
get established before the end of the north-east monsoon in December. 
But if not grown to any great size they can be lifted with a little 
<- The Liberian is much too robust to take any notice of its 
little friend, while by the time it has come into bearing you may safely 
assume that the Arabica has given what it can in maiden crops, and 
unless heavily 1 nanured has already made arrangements for — € —w— 
a better world where there is no fungus. 
The ae miscellaneous extracts ais corresponda aud letters | 
t Kew since 1882 will serve to bring the N of the 
ilvin of Liberian coffee down to a more recent date d 
Exrracr from a Report dated 7th April 1883 on — PE "uu 
periments in the Mergui District during the year 18 HÀ y 
Captain J. pn the Deputy ed nud ner. à; ud 
Liberian coffee has exceeded my most sanguine “expectations | 
success. As far as figoróts growth can be s criterion, nothing more 
could be desired. Over 1,000 of the plants that were at the end of 
eet in one year; the stems are strong, firm, and healthy, 
th rowing out es and leaves: the latter are - enormous size, being 
