ice: 
Iam to state that the Secretary of State will be obliged if you will 
be good enough to advise him as to the best method of dealing with 
The Crown Agents for the Colonies have been instructed to forward 
to you the box of specimens mentioned in m despatch. 
m, &c. 
The Director, (Signed). p JOHN BRAMSTON. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
ADMINISTRATOR of the Gorp Coast to COLONIAL OFFICE. 
Government House, Accra, 
Sir, July 18, 1896. 
I nave the honour to report that in consequence of the state- 
ments made by the Chief Justice, Mr. Brandford Griffith, in a letter 
addressed to Gosdraer Sir William Maxwell, of which T enclose an 
extract, His Excellency requested the Chief Medical Officer to visit 
buri and make a report upon the condition of the coffee shrubs an 
rubber trees. 
2. It was not, however, until last month that Dr. Easmon found 
himself in a position to leave Accra. [enclose a copy of his report 
"which reached me on the 26th ultimo, and I am se nding pausa by 
this mail, addressed to the Crown Agents, a box containing— 
a specime ns of borers 
and 
b) ita of coffee cin showing the action of the borers upon 
them 
8. I have the honour to ask that Dr. Easmon's report and the 
specimens may be sent to the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, who 
‘will no doubt give his valuable i as to the best method of 
gie and getting rid of the pes 
. Mr. Humphries, the curator " the Botanie Station, who, I m may 
al “afford ed Dr. Easmo Tio assistance, is now, as you are aware, in 
England on leave of EM 
I have, &c. 
The Right Honourable (Signed) F. M. Hopeson 
J. Chamberlain, M.P., Administrator. i 
&c. &e. &c. 
Exrxaor from a LETTER, dated Aburi, 6th J Jenpary 1896, from the 
Cuter JUSTICE to the GOVERN 
fatal injury to the trees. Peaetically all the Arabian coffee 1 
wretched, I never saw anythin looking better than the Liberian 
‘coffee. It looks superb. On closer investigation I found about two 
‘trees out of five attacked by a boring grub, different, I think, from the 
‘grub which attacked the Arabian coffee. This grub has only Pas 
e vs attack the Liberian coffee, and you can see trees laden 
