wide in good; soil: well cJt«g anii pulverised. They should be sown 3 or 

 4 inches, ap.art, and .afterwards transplanted into bamboo joints for 

 convenience of: carriage; iq the fields. They may also be sown in 

 bamboo pots at first. The nursery should be shaded from the direct 

 rays o£ the sub/ •"•/•£••!• *• I 



When the plants are put out in their permanent position, they will 

 still require shade, and perhaps bananas are the most suitable plants 

 for this purpose. It is possible that in dry situations, permanent 

 shade trees will be found necessary, and perhaps the best are the 

 guango, the bread fruit, and jack fruit trees. 



The distance apart for planting depends a good deal on the soil, and 

 whether the tree is topped. It may vary from 8 to 12 feet. 



Topping. — As to topping Liberian Coffee trees some planters do not 

 top them, but allow them to grow up naturally. In Liberia they are 

 topped down to 5 feet, and planters there say that they obtain larger 

 crops by this plan. When the trees grow up high, considerable injury 

 may be done by careless pickers. It may be found that 5 feet is too 

 low, and 8 feet for instance, a better height ; but just as the practice of 

 topping ordinary coffee varies throughout the island, it will be found 

 necessary to experiment with Liberian Coffee and discover the best 

 method for each district. 



Yield. — Extracts are given below from the Kew Bulletin showing 

 that crops of 9 to 12 cwts. per acre can be obtained from trees after 

 the third or fonrth year. 



Pulping, The tough fibrous character of the pulp renders the 

 ordinary coffee pulper quite unsuitable for use with Liberian Coffee, 

 and for some time after attention had first been called to this new 

 product by Sir Joseph Hooker from Kew, no satisfactory pulping 

 machine was invented. 



Now however, a machine has been devised by Messrs. John Gordon 

 & Co., 9 New Broad St., London, E.C., and on application to them, 

 they have supplied the following information about their pulper, 

 which is the only special machine required for treating Liberian 

 Coffee, as all the other machines treat Arabian and Liberian Coffee 

 equally well : — 



"The annexed engraving represent s Gordon's Improved Coffee Pulpers 

 which has been specially designed for pulping Liberian Coffee. 



" John Gordon & Co. have made many experiments for the purpose 

 of obtaining an efficient machine for pulping this kind of coffee, and 

 they now venture to submit this machine to planters, as the result of 

 their labours, with confidence that it will be found to possess a greater 

 efficiency than any machine hitherto offered for this purpose. 



" The machine is provided with a Rotary Screen and an Elevator ; 

 it is also fitted with a patent Adjustable Breast, having removable 

 working parts made of steel. 



" The Hopper is divided into two unequal parts, and the coffee 

 berries are delivered into the larger division with a constant stream 

 of water, the water being absolutely necessary to float the coffee over 

 into the machine, and to carry off the pulp and skins. The coffee 



