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Extract from Letter from Mr. E. H. Epwanps, Seychelles, dated 
lst July 1885. 
Liberian coffee does fairly well at sea level, but at a higher elevation. 
than 100 or 150 feet it is futile to plant it; above this the leaves ves appear 
to be attacked with a species of black bug, and the trees are very slow 
in growth. Ido not tbink this industry will ever be promoted to any 
great extent, the quantity x suitable land m so small It also 
suffers from Hemileia vastat 
Extract from Letter from Mr. G. S. JENMAN, F.L.S., Superintendent, 
Botanic Gardens, British Guiana, dated January 1886. 
Liberian coffee does better than anything else here, and produces 
sufficient seed for propagating purposes, pin ics that, hardy as it is,. | 
suffers much in the dry seasons, and would, as the free and mia m 
growth of the rainy seasons clearly shows, FA bett ter ina ‘climate mor 
generally humid. : 
ExTRACT from Report on the Government Plantation at Mergui i, by 
Mr. C. W. Patmer, Deputy Conservator of orests, "South 
"'enasserini Circle, dated 17th May 1886. 
here are now in hand 1,348 bearing trees, two hayi ing ben 
—— by white ants. From these ee trees the following coffee . 
Deris of the 382 Ibs. , 112 Ibs. were sown in the e plantation — 
30 lbs. were made over to the Deputy Commissioner, Mergui, to be 
sent to the exhibition at Edinburgh, the remainder is in amy 
possession. ies 
The whole of the coffee in berry was made over to Mr. Watson, the 
planter, in exchange for some tea seedlings. The coffee trees ‘have not 
flowered as well this year as they did last, however ch ane trees are 
looking healthy, and show no signs of leaf or other disea _ There are 
also : : : 
lings distr jbute d were one year old scidit cata nurseries. cuo 
“I have received several cnt siet for seedlings this year, ank 
believe; to receive more. © Mr. Morrow, the American missionary hi Boe 
is: going to make his Karens try the cultivation. This kind o o to 
will m I feel certain, bubus nearly in this md vt Berg ae 
distri eo 
EN from a Report on the Botanie Gardens, British Guiana, for 
the e year — 31st Decii 1885. 
the Rcs ei d ssl which was once ule 
seale, might Poos be profitably grown. An unfavotrid 
the m of Li in comparison with Arabian coffee. was sent ont 
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