ig COFFEE PLANTERS’ MANUAL, 
the hed being reached from each side, A long bed 
1s preferabl», as it will contain a greater number of 
plants than a short one, and the ground will not lose 
so much by cross paths between the beds. But this 
may be adapted to the nature and size of the ground 
selected for the purpose. A flat is often prepared,— 
especially if near water, as a nursery should always 
be in dry districts, or when planted just before the 
approach of our dry season,—so that in a run of dry 
weuther it might be watered. In a very moist climate, 
however, it is not so important that a stream should 
be near, as the fall of rain in such climate generally 
suffices. In such too, I would prefer a gentle undu- 
Jating piece of ground to a flat, as it drains itself 
naturally. In making a nursery where there is the 
least incline in thes ground, run a deep drain across 
the top to prevent wash damaging the young plants. 
Having laid out your nursery in beds, pulverize and 
smooth the surface earth, free it from lumps and 
stones, and level it. Then take a line with a peg at 
each end and divide the bed into rows. about six 
inches apart; a man follows the lines with a bag of 
seed and dibbles it in like peas, or makes a groove 
along the length of the rope about 1 to 2 inches deep, 
and places the seed, like peas, about 1 inch apart. 
Being planted so closely they grow up thick and 
support each other—leaving no room for the weeds 
to grow in tae planted lines, while the 6 inches space 
between admits of the beds being weeded as required. 
The seed is coffee in parchment just taken from the 
pulper, without having been dried in the sun. Old 
dry cherry coffee is sometimes used also; but the un- 
dried parchment, before its growth is injnred by the 
drying process, sprcuts most readily, and is therefore 
generally preferred, 
Some planters prefer making their nursery of SEED- 
LINGs, ¢@.e, of the young plants which spring up around 
the old coffee trees after crop,—the result of berries 
fatlen, frequently from the violence of the wind or 
rain about the time they are ripe, and sometimes 
from the estate being too short-handed to admit of 
its being gone over by the pickers as fast as the 
crop ripens, but always to a greater or less extent 
nnavoiduble, The same process of preparing beds for 
these is requisite as that used for seed: an’ the 
plants are dibbled in the same way. In a moist cli- 
mate or season these come on much faster than seed ; 
ut in dry weather they are apt to be very much 
tried—hbefore they get fairly acclimatized to their new 
bed— unsheltered by the parent tree. Again a NursE- 
RY is sometimes sown broad-cast, £.¢., where the 
soil is very free and contains sufficient moisture to 
