PREFACE. 
desire of several planters. Some useful letters, such 
as Mr. Tytler’s on fixing iron-roofing, and one on the 
laying of asphalte, have also been re-published by 
request. A few other papers and tables which had 
not hitherto seen the light are given, in addition to 
copious extracts from valuable cgntributions to the 
literature of coffee-planting which appeared in the 
Ceylon Observer, and it is to be hoped that the whole 
will be found most useful and suggestive to the young 
planter as well as to all interested in the chief in- 
dustry of Ceylon. 
CoLtomBpo, 7th May 1872. 
PREFATORY NOTE TO THE 
SECOND EDITION. 
oe 
Tus littl Manual has been generally considered 
-one of the most concise and at the same time 
correct guides ever published for the young cofiee- 
planter. It has now for some time been out of print, 
and in “publishing a Second Edition we have taken 
the opportunity to lay the pages before three prac- 
tical planters, whose Notes will be found prefixed to 
Mr. Brown’s Manual. On the whole the .opinion of 
the planting critics to whom we referred is that the 
little work is singularly correct even when considered 
in the light of eight years’ additional experience. We 
have also taken the opportunity of adding to the 
book some seventy pages containing summaries of the 
latest discussions on Manuring, Chemical Analyses 
of Soils, Agricultural Experiments bearing on Coffee 
Culture, the Enemies of Coffee (White Grub, Leaf 
Disease, &c.), Estimates of Crops, Liberian Coffee 
Culture, and other practical subjects of interest to 
the young planter of the present day. We trust, 
~ therefore, that THE CoFFEE PLANTER’S MANUAL of 
1880 may be found even more useful and be more 
generally appreciated than its predecessor of 1872, 
THE PUBLISHERS AND COMPILERS. 
“‘CEYLON OBSERVER” Orricz, April, 1880. 
