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The previous curator sent out 9,000 plants in 1891. 
This year the station has already sent out over 20,000. 
Has never had eomplaints as to plants sent out; as a rule the plants 
have done we 
-. There is now a great demand for Liberian coffee. - 
CCCCXXVI,.—GERMAN COLONIES IN TROPICAL 
RICA. 
ie a Foreign Office Report [ No. 346, Miscellaneous Series, 1894] on 
* German Colonies in Africa and the South Pacific ' a uo forwarded 
2 ge Khibberloy by Mr. Martin Le M. Gossel in, C.B., H.M. Chargé 
d'Affaires at Berlin, some interesting pere uiars are given respecting 
the development of agriculture under German auspices in Tropical 
Africa, The principal i items are e contained i in nee following extracts :— 
—. TocoraAND. 
This i is the first German Colony on the West Coast of Africa. It lies 
immediately east of the British Colony of the Gold Coast and between 
it and the French Colony of Dahomey. The estimated area is 60,000 
square kiloms. e population is said to number two and a half 
millions. Of these, in 1893, only 56 were Europeans. The port of the 
Colony is at Klein Po Lome is also a thriving town with 14 factories 
or European trading houses. * Togoland, from a financial point of view, 
is the most satisfactory of all the German Colonies. It is indeed, the 
only African Colony iain Ne its way without asking for a subsidy 
from the Imperial Gover 
“ The chief products of dio Colony are : 
« Palm-oil.  .Palm-kernels. Cocoa- iud These were planted until 
quite recently only for the consumption of the natives ; latterly the 
cultivation has much increased. The Europeans have gine from 
60,000 to 70,060 trees, and the natives are following their ex 
: Indian corn is grown in large quantities, but little is pote! as 
most of ihe crop is wanted for home consumption. A considerable 
quantity, was, however, sold last year to the this Commissariat for 
the supply of the troops engaged in the Dahome 
“Ground nuts are now only planted in id quantities almost 
exclusively for native consumption. 
* Caoutchouc grows well on the hills in the interior, and it is intended 
to plant a large quantity of indiarubber trees 
* Trees resembling mahogany, and in less ^. "erre ebony, are to be 
found in the forests along the Haho and Sio R 
anges, lemons, figs, pine-apples, melons, amie m: Joan Poppa 
and tomatos are all to be found in Togoland, an attempt is now 
being made to renr the estopa, The coffee plántatioe are Going 
well, and the first coffee harvest will be gathered this year. Very 
successful experiments have n likewise made in arboriculture, 
Eucalyptus and mango trees thriving particularly well. As for 
vegetables, salad, ero turnips, parsley, and asparagus are success- 
fully cultivated. Potatoes on the contrary are not a success.” 
