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Shade during first year, Sfc. — In order to shade the young plants 

 during the first year, corn should be sown beforehand in the middle be- 

 tween the rows and a row of beans on each side between the corn and 

 the coffee. Plantains may be planted at the bottom sides of the roads, 

 at distances of 6 to 8 feet apart, taking the place of the coffee at those 

 spots. Sugar canes may be planted along the road-sides between. 

 These will keep up the roads. The top sides of the road may be planted 

 with cabbages, parsley, &c, but not with turnips, carrots or beets which 

 have to be dug out. No tobacco should be allowed, as it seeds very 

 freely, and exhausts the ground. No ground provisions, yams, sweet 

 potatoes, &c, should be planted as they loosen the ground too much. 

 (For permanent shade, see " Accidents, e"). 



Weeding. — Weeds take so much nourishment from the coffee, that 

 perhaps half the crop will be lost, if the weeding is not attended to, and 

 eventually the coffee tree dies. If the land is steep, and the earth soft 

 and crumbly, weeding should be done by hand, and not with the hoe. 

 The weeds should be heaped up above the trees between a tree and the 

 one above it. The weeding should be done in good time so that the 

 weeds are not allowed to seed. [Young coffee should be weeded every 

 6 or 8 weeks. Prime coffee at least 4 times a year. It is a good plan 

 especially with old and neglected coffee to cut grass and lay it on, or 

 thatch, the surface of the ground, as it keeps down weeds, makes the 

 soil cool, and forms manure.] 



Accidents. — (a) If, in weeding, the young coffee trees are seen to be 

 withered, the vacancies must be supplied with larger plants with balls 

 of earth round their roots, planted in wider and deeper holes, adding 

 some manure. [Nurseries of the smaller plants should be made in new 

 fields for supplying the following year]. 



(b) If any plant is found broken or twisted, it must be cut close to 

 the ground in a sloping direction, the cut surface facing the north. 

 Suckers will shoot up from this, of which only the best should be pre- 

 served. 



(c) When, after a light shower of rain towards noon, the sun comes 

 out strong, the young plants may be blasted, or the green berries mil- 

 dewed. The only remedy is to plant afresh. 



(d) Often and especially when the trees are 18 or 20 months old, 

 the leaves become yellow and withered. The cause may be a premature 

 crop of berries. These should at once be stripped off entirely, If after 

 few days it does not begin to recover, it is probably eaten at the roots 

 by a large white grub. The tree must be taken up and the grub removed ; 

 a larger hole should be made which should be left exposed to the sun 

 for a fortnight, and planted again. 



(e) In hot situations, banana and plantain trees are mixed with the 

 coffee trees for the purpose of shade and coolness. These are usually 

 placed at every fourth or sixth row, as the trees are more or less distant 

 and the place more or less hot. If the bananas are placed in the inter- 

 vals between the coffee., they are too close, and become entangled with 

 their boughs, and the fall of the bunches and even of the leaves may 

 break and hurt them. It is better therefore that a banana be placed in- 

 stead of a coffee tree, and that the rows be alternately banana and coffee. 



(f) If on the contrary, from the extreme coolness of the place, the 



