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was only to shipments of Liberian geet in the cherry, and not to 
shipments of Liberian coffee in parchment at all. 
We have carefully read the Premier phils on Liberian coffee on 
pp. 261-263 of the Kew Bulletin of 1888, which contains Messrs. Lewis 
and Peat’s letter, and we think it is quite compatible with the belief 
that “it is probable that, under many conditions, being able to ship 
oe er in parchment is a facility of considerable importance to 
Mes essrs, Lewis and Peat say in their letter of October 1888, ii We 
certainly think if such results can be obtained on the other side, as 
shown by your sample from the Tan Hun Guan estate, at Durian 
Tungal (Malacca), it would be folly to send the coffee home here in 
parchment.” This remark is on the assumption that it is possible to 
a few red with an amount o 
which it may often be commercially impracticable to bestow on an entire 
. crop, and we have in mind the difficulty that cultivators so often 
experience in preparing their crop (after they have perhaps grown it in 
the best possible way) to suit the fancy of the buyers. 
As regards the remark that “the parchment of this coffee gets very 
hard and difficult to clean when left long before cleaning," there is no 
doubt that Liberian parchment is far more difficult to deal with than 
parchment of the Arabian type, but as the coffee has to be thoroughly 
dry whether it is cleaned here or abroad, we do not think the parchment 
really becomes any harder when left long before cleaning, or that the 
coffee is more difficult to work than it otherwise would have been 
The remark would, however, undoubtedly apply to Liberian coffee 
dried in the cherry, as the cherry husk then becomes . ngly hard, 
very much indeed like the shell of a nut, and it was EnowIege ar this 
fact, and that coffee forwarded in cherry naturally shows a far higher 
per centage of loss a, ra than coffee sent forward merely in the 
parchment, that led 1 Jur so strongly in our letter of March 
1892 ( Kew rangi 1893, pp. 1 20:153). gaps shipments of Liberian. 
coffee in cherry. regards the pare f Johore Li iberian, referred to 
by Messrs. Lewis aoi Peat as not MAUS turned out. satisfactorily, the 
fact that it Fa not been properly dried and was consequently musty, 
would be sufficient to account for the bad result, as if growers failed 
to pulp, ak: and dry their produce properly, it is impossible for any 
amount as care, either on this or the other de E to afterwards Dacia 
the de = 
ies in o 
Coffee Company, Limited. These gentlemen have furnished us with 
information as to prices obtained, &e., so that we are able to give fairly 
full particulars concerning this pare 
We understand it is the first shipment from the Taritipan estate of 
the company in British North a d and consisted of B. C. and 
Co., Limited, 43 bags parchment coffee, and three bags cleaned coffee, 
which arrived per “Telamon” SS. at Singapore, ex * Banjermassin” 
SS. at Kudat, eo. Messrs. Shand, Haldan e time 
& Co, at t 
they hand s the Borneo Liberian with instructions ‘to: warehouse 
and clean hi coffee, seien us that they antieipated a rather 
