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the consideration of such a cultural industry it must not be 
Merida that the principal current difficulties which have to be local 
d and overcome, are inm ette of labour and comparative in- 
ichil from want of roads whether cart or rail, to the areas best 
adapted to the growth of Psa The question of means of communica- 
ae and valuable export in this commodity ; it remains unsolved 
n this Celo d notwithstanding its 
e extent coffee culture has reached in British Honduras 
ree yield falls far short of local a as can be readily gathered 
m the im ppr ts Md the past five years. 
offea ica appears to p the jee of the genus coffee 
generally prem | in Central America, where i s become neutralised, 
as is the case in those of the West Indian Islands in which the con- 
dition of labour has admitted of its cultivati 
. On the lowlands of Guatemala Coffea liber ica flourishes, where its 
harvesting y facilitated by the fact that its rich heavy berries when 
ripe do not drop to the ground, a condition of things — should not 
be lost Pen of in this colony where Jabour is of such momert. 
ave, &c. 
(Si qua ALFRED MOLONEY, 
The Right Hon, Lord Knutsford, G. C.M.G Governor. 
&c. &e- &e. 
Roxar Garprns, Kew, to COLONIAL OFFICE. 
Sin, Royal Gardens, Kew, 10th October 1892. 
I am desired by Mr. Thiselton Dyer to acknowledge the receipt 
of pe letter of the 21st September, forwarding a copy of a despatch 
from the Governor of British Honduras on the subject of samples of 
vr grown and cured at San Filipe Estate in that Colony. 
. This coffee was received from the ees Agents on the 20th Sep- 
rokers. The coffee was carefully dried at Kew and presented in as 
and attractive * condition as pau iai it - impossible to overcome 
ie nju o it previous to its ar 
. In order " carry out the wishes "of Sir ‘Alfred Moloney the coffee 
was s eaters for report and valuation to Messrs. Lewis and Peat, 
brokers of Mincing Lane. The circumstance of the ces was full; 
explained to them beforehand, and their report is, on the whole, of an. 
interesting and favourable character. 
4. The fortunes of this sig coffee estate in British Honduras hare 
been followed at Kew for many yar In 1879 3 e proposal to ma 
pects (The 
Honduras, pp- 50, nc Ini 885 Mr. Edward Forrest, a Ceylon planter, 
visited the estate and prepared a detailed report upon it for the informa- 
f the Government. copy of this report was afterwards 
communicated to : 
5. It is evident that coffee of ve ry good quality could be grown in 
British Honduras, and there are large tracts of lands in the interior well 
