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Hybrid Coffee in Mysore.—What are reg eia as hybrid coffee 
plants, the result of cross fertilization between the — and 
Arabian kinds, are Sinai cultivated in some e digits s in Mysore. 
The most recent information regarding them is ini E. ntained in 
a Report on the Manjarabad Ghat Forests presented last year to the 
Government of Mysore by Mr. J. Cameron, F.L.S., Superintendent 
of the Lal Bagh Gardens, Bangalore 
It is evident that coffee planters in the district believe the 
plants to be true hybrids. No specimens, however, which would 
substantiate the fact have been received in this country. It is 
therefore impossible to express an authoritative opinion on the 
subject. In the meantime Mr. Cameron’s pre of the plants 
Michiel vé will be read with interest :— 
* When the Barguai estate had been well explored I was taken 
to the adjoining one of Oossoor, the property of Mr. Brooke Mockett. 
. Crawford, the Superintendent, kindly showed me 
the hybrid coffee of which so paid is now heard. 
* These hybrids, with their parents, are flourishing, in quantity, 
on a ios of land situated near the cooly lines. On this plot, 
many years ago, two coffee MM had been planted pretty close 
the oe species, Coffea puris Both these plants, which are 
said t the parents of the hybrid progeny, are still alive and 
both aniihi their specific characters. The first two hybrids, 
which are now very fine bushes, came up H aemp E: in the 
vicinity of the parent bushes about 10 or 12 yearsago. Since then 
numerous hybrid e ia have esce detected, of which the first 
batch is seven years old. Mr. Crawford tells me that on Mr. Mockett's 
ERU vct mera now cover six acres of land,and are not je 
han 5,000 in number. The variation in the different seedlings no 
in fruit is ily remarkable, and leaves n o doubt in my tiu as as 
to the interspecific nature of their origin. Iam inclined to think 
that in the first instance pollen from ughve ave ar eap Seis the 
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probable that the pede es Medline of C. liberica were better 
preserved than ilias: of the adjoining C. arabica, hence my opinion 
that the first hybrids were produced from the former and not 
from the latter. But subsequently counter- and intercrossing have 
In a few bushes, the elders are diawt cro wded 
with berries nearly all ripening together, just as in C. arabica. 
At the same time the leaves are larger, greener, and much firmer 
in texture than the leaves of the imm ke I discovered, is the 
most favoured strain, as it promises crop and shows no sign of 
being attacked by leaf disease: =" fact, all the hybrids appear to 
be proof against the latter pest.” 
