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temperature runs up to 85° in the shade. Liberian coffee does not mind 
sun but requires a certain amount of moisture with good drainage, and 
200 inches. Those inland as little as 60. On all these places there is 
good Liberian to be seen. The sample of coffee of this giant kind is 
good; something like a date stone in appearance, has lately been valli 
at 85s. to 90s. in London, or say 10s. per cwt. less than Arabian. I am 
supplying seedlings to planters in large quantities; these, if put into 
nurseries 6" x 6" apart, shaded and watered till following June, should 
comes ee quickly. We find topping the tree or pruning in any way 
o put them back. Any other questions I shall be glad to 
Misa) 
Liberian coffee affords a striking example of the intense conservatism 
of persons engaged in commerce. It was first grown at Kew in 1872, ` 
nearly a quarter of a century ago. Sir Joseph Hooker spared 1 no opens 
in bringing it under the notice of planters, and by 1876 it had been 
raised in large quantity and distributed from Kew to e tier tropical 
colony. As stated in the Report for e Tir (p. 10), “it excited the 
expectations of coffee planters in all parts of the world to the highest 
degree." This enthusiasm was however materially damped when the 
produce was found to be received with little favour in the home market. 
It was not till it was known to be saleable ac a remunerative price in 
the United States that interest in its cultivation again revived. "This 
in turn stimulated mechanical we Meter in devising machines for over- 
coming the difficulty of pulping the berri 
Full information respecting the ep == Mui. of Liberian 
coffee has appeared in the Kew Bulletin as follows :— 
Historical and Descriptive Account, 1890, pp. ie -253. 
Liberian Coffee at the Straits Settleme nt, with value of parchment 
coffee cleaned and sold in London, 1888, pp. 261-26: 
Yield of Liberian noes in Selangor and Ujong, 1890, ‘pp. 107-108, 
and 1892, pp. 277-2: 
Liberian Coffee i in Jav se 1893, p 
Husking in London not davies @ “pid, 132. 
Liberian Coffee at Sierra Leone, ibid., p. 167. 
Pulping Liberian Coffee, ibid., pp. 204-206. 
Immunity from Attacks of Coffee-leaf Miner, 1894, p. 132 
Cultivation at the Gold Coast, 1895, pp. 12-13, and pp. 21-23. 
_ The cultivation of Liberian coffee was strenuously advocated in 
tion up to 1878.” It however made little progress o to its 
unsuitability for the “topping treatment” which the Ceylon. “plant ters 
plage are not adopted with Liberian coffee 
