ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 

BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 

No. 71.] NOVEMBER. [1892, 

CCLXXV.—COFFEE CULTIVATION IN BRITISH 
HONDURAS 
In a Foreign Office Report [ No. 255, Miscellaneous Series, 1892] on 
the cote industry of Guatemala, a very interesting account is given by 
Gosling of the present position and prospects of the very 
louis: coffee industry which has m established in this Central 
Am n Republic. In the report it is stated that “the export of 
A caffe i Guatemala in 1891, osse to 52,197,853 lbs., valued 
* roughly at about 2,185,997/, and this year’s crop will, it is 
i: confidently believed, be considerably in ore of that of 1891. 
“Speaking g generally, the climate of Guatemala is singularly h ee 
* especially in n the coffee zone, which varies in altitude from 1,500 fee 
** to 5,000 feet above sea level.” 
Very full imber is given respecting the PELO: of coffee 
cultivation of late years, the price of land, the cireumstances connected 
with the supply of Sod: and other questions likely to be of general 
interest. In conclusion Mr. Gosling perons 2 vi bore suitable for 
* the cultivation of coffee are still to rice, and it 
is confidently believed that were labour suticiontly pleni cem 
d n times the amount of coffee produced be 
R 
«0 a 20 per cent. of the owners of coffee estates are Germans, and 
^ this, as has already sane stated, is the case with nearly every branch 
“ of industry in Guate 
* ]t is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when Eea crap 
* will turn their attention to this country and endeavour successfully to 
* compete with German 
This report is of i importance at the present time if only as encouraging 
a hope, long entertained at Kew, that the rich coffee lands of the 
neighbouring colony of British Honduras, hitherto quite neglected, 
might be opened to a similarly prosperous coffee industry. The 
divided xir a frontier line, from Gracias à Dios to Garbutt's Fails, 
of about miles. The high pns of British Honduras are 
U 73693.  1250.—10/92. Wt. 38. : i 
