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year will mount far beyond the average. The ill wind of Brazil is a 
favouring breeze on this side of the Atlantic. Coffee which was pur- 
chased in Cazengo at 33d. per lb., and which cost 1jd. per lb. to ie 
to the port of shipment, has alr eady been selling in Lisbon at 7d. per 1 
The margin is satisfactory, and yet it shows that under ordinary cireum- 
stances there must be very little room to depend upon. In fact, the 
rate of exchange often makes all the difference between profit and loss. 
value 7id. For this and other reasons rchants in 
Poiti West Africa need a large capital and ufboundéd patience, 
CCCLXXXV.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
A New Edition of Johnson's Gardeners Dictionary.— The first 
edition of this useful work appeared in 1846, since when it has been 
xw an nd now Curator of iid UE Garlen at Glasgow, is a great 
improvement on the precedin ; and, from its portable size and 
moderate price, will dips bí. “highly appreciated by all persons 
odisea in gardening. 
Maragogipe Coffee.— This a puces variety of Arabian Coffee 
found in Brazíl and introduced to this country by Mr. Thomas papa 
F.L.S., in 1883. The plant has been grown in the Palm House at Kew 
this year it has produced a good crop of fruit. It is large and vigorous 
looking, having, at first sight, much of the habit of Liberian Coffee. 
The leaves though fully twice the size of those of Arabian Coffee have, 
however, the papery texture and the undulating character distinguishing 
that species. ‘The flowers, also, are the flowers of C. arabica, and so 
are the meets except in size. The latter are nearly an inch long, 
red and soft when ripe with a silky smooth surface and a very small 
proportion of sir 'The chartaceous integument known as the * parch- 
ment skin," is thin as in Arabian Coffee and not hard and horny as in 
Liberian Coffee. The cleaned beans, before drying, form fully 30 per 
cent. by weight of the cherries, and in this respect Maragogipe Coffee 
is sided very promising. From a culture point of view the heavy 
whippy branches may be a drawback as also the very long internodes 
showing a taadaa amount of barren w When first introduced 
Maragogipe Coffee was described as follows : “It grows with extra- 
* ordinary vigour, and trees three to four years old were already eight 
* to ten feet high and full of fruit. The tree seems to come into full 
* much larger e e weight of coffee per acre must 
x much more than from the ordinary coffee. tree." Although Mara- 
