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Coast and at Lagos. “In the latter colony the industry has originated in 
the efforts made in that direction at the botanical station established by 
the Government at Ebute Metta.—(Kew Bulletin, 1888, p. 149). The 
distribution of Liberian coffee and other plants from this station have 
as high as 13,960 per quarter, or at the rate of 45,000 per annum 
In 1892 CIMA cist a nominal price only was charged for the plants and 
in some cases many distributed free of charge to native chiefs) the total 
receipts amounted to more than 917. What was apparently the first 
attempt ata E coffee plantation in Lagos is described in the Kew 
Bulletin, 1893, p. 182. 
In 1894 some dibio coffee in parchment, grown at the botanic 
station at an elevation of one. 20 feet above the sea, was valued in 
London at 94s. pe th m been shown, however, that the more 
permanent sort w arent in the lowlands is the pac coffee, and 
sam £t ere recently valued at nearly t The 
31st December 1894 :—“ There is no doubt that coffee has a great 
future before it on the West Coast. If properly cultivated and Prepared. 
it should be able to compete with any coffee-growing eountr 
In the Appendix to the Report on the botanic station for the quarter 
ended 30th September 1895 the following further partieulars are 
ILE Ud respecting the extension of coffee plantations in the colony of 
gos :— 
It m probably be interesting to. record the advancement made in 
Coffee. plantations in e colon da which have originated through the 
ceta bib kD of this b ibiritist ata tio 
en returning from Abeokuta his Excellency the Acting-Governor 
gave me permission to A as two engin situated near the Ado River. 
The first one I visited was at Soto, and is owned by the Ilaro Estates: 
and Plantations Company, limited "it was mht te in 1892, and is: 
under the management of Mr. Punch, a European, who took me round 
and kindly gave me quarters for the night, 
Mr. Punch calculates that he has 150 acres under cultivation, which 
includes 50,000 plants of Coffea liberica. ‘These plants are in different 
that a crop is not expected much before three years; 9000 plants were 
planted out last year, and 36,000 during the present year. 
About 1000 of Coffea arabica din omnia out, and these have pro- 
duced good crops of berries of g 
Cacao is also being grown 4600; plants have been planted oui, and. 
their appearance is dearly that tence rv desired for young plants. 
ubber-trees—Ceera rubber (Manihot Glaziovii) are also being 
cultivated ; 700 trees have been planted out, and are doing exceedingly 
well; a few plants of Ficus elastica have made considerable growth. 
‘Fruits-—Pine apples, the cultivated forms of this i are grown to 
a small extent, and produce fruit of good size and flavo 
The work of the plantation is being carried out ‘systematically : good 
roads cut, shelter belts left, and planting and. hoeing being attended to 
and carried out properly. The ground i is kept free from werds as much 
. 8s le. 
be peines Je plants of coffee in Ee aimer wbeut 10,000 ; 
Me d nurseries are made ready for the reception of seeds for 
