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vigour, the lcaves were more luxuriant and firmer in texture, and the 
insects were either unable to attack them or they could i livé in the 
comparatively cooler climate. In any case, the best cure for the 
Cemiostoma would appear to be the restriction of the culi ation of the 
Arabian coifee, at least, to the higher elevations. Should the insects 
ing fields the first remedy should to provide 
suitable shade; and, after that, to gather the leaves as svon as D are 
attacked, and destr oy them by burning. The observations mad 
Imray, in 18777 w regard to the immunity of Liberian ai Y odi 
attacks of the dog vey been fully borne out. This coffee, growing 
even close to the sea, and in the neighbourhood of Arabian coffee in- 
fested with Cemiostoma is left untouched. 
It may be added that this disease is sometimes mentioned in corres- 
pondence and reports in the West Indies as the “ coffee-leaf blight.” 
The destructive coffee-leaf disease of igh caused by a minute fungus, 
Hemileia wavs ext is, however, so far, not known in the coffee areas of 
the New rd. It would be well to distinguish deii between the 
TSMONELANA, ge Henileia, for the ravages of the former, though severe 
at certain periods, are not absolutely destructive to coffee. On the other 
hand, the introduction of the Hemileia to the New World would result 
in a by no means gradual extinetion of the whole industry. Coffee pro- 
duction would then to a large extent depend upon the yield of Liberian 
coffee trees, and this is another important consideration in favour of the 
more general planting of this species in all localities where it is likely 
to thrive. Full information respecting the cultivation and curing of 
Liberian coffee lias appeared in the Kew Bulletin, as follows : cO Metis ical 
and Descriptive Account, 1890, pp. 245-253; Liberian Coffee at the Straits 
Settlements, with value of parchment coffee cleaned and sold in London, 
1888, pp. 261-263; Yield of Liberian Coffee Estates in Selangor and 
Ujeng, 1890, pp. 107- 108, and 1892, pp. 277-282 ; Miscellaneous Note, 
1893, p. 25; Husking in London not advisable, ibid, 132; Liberian 
Coffee at Sierra Leone, ibid, p. 167; Pulping Liberian Coffee, ibid, pp. 
204-206. 
CCCLXXVI.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
. J. F. JEFFREY, Attendant in the Herbarium of the Royal 
Gardens, “has been appointed Attendant in the Herbarium of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. 
The Lords of the Treasury, on the recommendation of the First 
isi of Her Majesty’s Works and Public Buildings, le nien 
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Gardens to "195. per week. It may be noted that before 1847 the 
minimum appears to have been only 12s. ; in that year it was raised to 
14s.; in 1865 to 15s. ; in 1873 to 17s. ; in 1889 to 18s. The total rise 
of the minimum wage in the preceding half century has been about 
37 per cent. 
Hooker's Icones Plantarum.—By an bein c the fourth part of the 
third volume of the fourth series was issued without the index. It will 
be issued with the next part published, vindi will probably appear 
