ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Page. 

 Plate I. — Coffee shaded with bananas planted wide apart, Cordoba, Mexico. 



Frontispiece. 

 II. — Coffee district of the Adjuntas Valley, Porto Rico; closely planted 



shaded coffee in foreground 6 



III. — Coffee tree growing near San Juan, P. R., in sand, at sea level, and 



entirely without shade .• 10 



IV.— Hillside coffee plantation, shaded with bananas and a variety of 

 fruit and forest trees, barrio Juana Mata, between Ponce and 



Adjuntas, P. R 12 



V. — Fig. 1 — Superficial root system of coffee. Fig. 2 — Coffee-drying 



floor, between Mayaguez and Marias 18 



VI. — Typical Porto Rican coffee plantation, Caguitas, shaded with Inga 



and a variety of indigenous trees 20 



VII. — Coffee overshaded and dwarfed by bananas, as commonly planted 



in Porto Rico 26 



VIII. — Coffee from heavily shaded plantation, Porto Rico. (Natural size) 26 

 IX. — Porto Rican coffee plantation, overshaded before the hurricane, now 



choked by grass and denuded by the leaf -miner 30 



X. — Neglected coffee in Porto Rico, grown without shade, but vigorous 



and leafy 30 



XL — Coffee leaves injured by leaf-miner; from plantation shown in 



Plate IX. (Natural size) 31 



XII. — The pigeon pea or ganduli (Cajanus), a leguminous catch crop for 



coffee. (Natural size) 50 



XIII. — Bases of leaflets of the bucare or madre de cacao (Erythrina poep- 

 pigiana) the best-known coffee shade tree of the West Indies; 

 the characteristic extra-floral nectaries shown at the bases of the 



lower leaflets ( Natural size) 57 



XIV. — Leaves and pods of guama {Inga laurina), a favorite shade tree for 



coffee in Venezuela and Porto Rico. ( Three-fourths natural size ) . 62 

 XV. — Young shoot of guava (Inga vera), planted for coffee shade, Cayey, 



P.R. (Slightly reduced) 63 



XVI. — Fig. 1 — Rain tree (Pithccolobium saman), one of the most desirable 

 shade trees. Fig. 2 — Leaflets and flowers of the rain tree. (Natu- 

 ral size) 72 



