242 TREATMENT OF LIBERIAN COFFEE, 
made for R10 per 1,000*). The baskets should be filled 
with the same compost as the beds, with a little more 
loam and a little less manure. They should be kept in 
the shed and regularly watered for ten days, after which 
they may exposed be to the morning sun, and taken in 
as soon as the leaves show any symptoms of drooping, 
but they may be left outsice entirely as soon as they can 
stand the sun without drooping. 
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The plants may be put out in the field when they have 
three pairs of leaves, but, of course, at the proper season, 
during the first rains of the monsoon. Theadvantage of 
the baskets are that they present little obstruction to 
the spread of the roots, and will be rotten thoroughly 
in a few months ; the plants never feel that they have 
been removed, or have their growth stopped for a day, 
saving thereby laborious shading, and a greater or less 
“percentage of loss, according to the circumstances of the 
season. 
The size of the holes may be a matter of taste, but my 
opinion is, that they can hardly be too big ; a good prac- 
tical size, however, is two feet cubic, which, filled with 
surface soil, gives the plant 13°$24 cubic inches of the 
richest material the land afford, to forage in, before 
forced into it is greater effort, for the purpose of pene- 
trating the regions beyonds, whereas an eighteen inch 
hole only gives 5°832 inches. 
As we have not yet learned what the lateral expansion 
of a full-grown tree may be, we cannot decide the proper 
distance apart : ten feet ought to be enough, if allowed 
to carry out their natural vertical developement, but if 
topped at seven feet it appears to me that ten feet may 
be ultimately found too close. It is clearly the nature 
of the tree to throw out no branches till it reaches a 
height of from two to three feet, and the tendency to 
grow suckers from every part of the main stem is much 
greater than in the case of the Arabian species, and, 
what is more, I have found it very seriously resent 
their removal. We will no doubt gather experience 
as we proceed, but for the present we, of necessity, 
work a good deal in the dark. 
K. L. C. B. 
* Up-country planters pay R15 per 1,000 for plant 
baskets, —COMPILERS. 
