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MISCELLANEOUS. INFORMATION. 
Wo.98.] — ^. FEBRUARY. [1895. 
QCCCXXXVIIL—COFFEE CULTIVATION AT THE 
— GOLD COAST. 
Coffee cultivation in West Africa is gradually extending. In the 
lowlands the plant chiefly cultivated is Coffea liberica ; but a small- 
berried form of Coffea arabica is also grown. The beans of this are 
vires small, but the produce when well cleaned has been valued as high 
ewt. For the hills of the interior the best plant is 
undoubteily the robust C. arabica grown in the Blue Mountains of 
This has large ihe nettes e from the best 
of in disease with 
estates 140s. per owt. There is no danger trodueing 
_ this poter: 
Severa ee ra haye been started at the Gold Coast 
(Kew alna 1802, p. “at Aburi at the Botanic Station 
have also been noticed (Rew Bulletin, 1895, p. 11). The followi 
correspondence communicated to Kew by the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies affords information of a coffee and cacao plantation of 
moderately large size in course of being established near Cape Coas 
Castle :— 
COLONIAL OFFICE to ROYAL GARDENS, Krw. 
Colonial Office, — seni i 
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oe ik directed by the Secretary of State for the Coloniae 
smit to you, for your information, the accompanying extract Ton 
| the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, with an aecount 
of Messrs. "Miller tN ll and Company’s coffee plantation at Kuby 
Kul, near Cape Coa 
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The Director, (Signed) yi Ue HE tite.” 
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p i from Deria from the Governor of the Gold Coast, 
No. 14 of the 8th-January 1895. 
An interesting account is given by Mr. Holmes of Messrs. Miller 
Brothers and Company's coffee plantation at’ Kuby Kul, which is about 
10 miles inland from Cape Coast. About 150 acres have been cleared 
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