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the district. In addition 2,000 cacao plants have beén raised from seed 
and planted out. and 5,000 rubber plants, some mangoes, oranges, and 
limes. Some of the coffee trees have suffered from over bearing, and 
they are only three years old last November. 
falls every month of the year, as in Belize for 1884, there 
should be no necessity for shade for coffee, as I am sure the coffee has 
already suffered from over-shade from the bananas and plantains. . . . . 
at the south end of the estate on a flat piece of land, thick with grass 
and weeds, there is the finest piece of coffee on the whole property. 
is piece of 
advances are tempted to desert. Any attempt to recapture the deserters 
is futile. This is especially so with the class of men called “ Spaniards.” 
s . The Indians could easily be induced to work on estates with 
encouragement. If the coffee enterprise should extend in the western 
district a good road or railway will eventually be necessary as an outlet 
for the produce. 
(Signed) Epwarp Forrest. 
The latest information respecting coffee growing in British Honduras 
is contained in the following official correspondence which has been 
communicated to Kew :— 
CoLoNianL OFFICE to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
Sir, Downing Street, 21st September 1892. 
I am directed by the Marquess of Ripon to transmit to you a 
copy of a despatch from the Governor of British Honduras, and to 
inform you that the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been requested 
to you the box of samples of coffee therein referred to, for a 
report for which Lord Ripon will be obliged. 
ain, &c. 
The Director, (Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Sir ALFRED MOLONEY to COLONIAL OFFICE. 
Mx Lorp, Government House, Belize, 31st August 1892. 
NorwiTHsTANDING the colony's contiguity to one of tl 
viewed, I urderstand, as the capital of the coffee garden of Guatemala, 
Govertment is frequently asked whether British Honduras is fit 
for the cultivation of this commodity. 
to the care of the Crown Agents for the Colonies, on the 10th instant 
per S.S. * Antilles," a box of coffee as below, containing a sample of 
what is grown on the San Filipe estate, situate in the Cayo district at 
an elevation between 300 and 400 feet, and I beg to request that the 
Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, be invited to favour this 
colony with an authoritative opinion on its quality and value. | 
