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Question*. Answers. 

 Re Parchment Coffee shipped to London to be cured. 



1. Name and address of Firm who cure the 

 Coffee. 



2. Is the Coffee conveyed direct to the Mills 

 and what is the arrangement, about Duty. The 

 Mills must be a Bonded. Warehouse ? 



3. On arrival, is the Coffee at once taken in 

 hand or kept in a very dry place ? 



4. How is the Coffee prepared ? Does the 

 sizer take out Nos. 1, 2, 3, and Triage qualities ? 

 Is it polished after winnowing ? and is it gar- 

 bled (i. e., the deformed and bad beans taken 

 out.by hand as i6 done here and in Ceylon) or is 

 the sizing alone deemed sufficient ? 



5. Is not the wet, damp, foggy weather of 

 England, calculated to injure the colour and 

 quality of the berry ? 



6. Would it b8 preferable to send home the 

 Coffee in barrels? or are bags sufficiently safe P 

 and do not they sometimes get sea-damaged ? 



7. What is the cost of suring ete., per cwt P 



8. The Purchaser pays duty, and takes the 

 Coffee from the Mills, which is sold in Mincing 

 Lane by the Broker as customary T 



9. Would the Brokers, if the Coffee is made 

 over to them by the Agent undertake to see the 

 Coffee handed over to the Mills and see to its 

 preparation or must the Person to whom the 

 Coffee is consigned do this ? 



tor sale f *W ouicftue Co£tee 1- b6~liiefy toliellVet- 

 ter if put into barrels or casks ? 



11. Should the Farchment Coffee be dried as 

 fully as would be doi-c here, fit to go to the Mill, 

 as hard indeed as to be brittle between the teeth p 



1. The Proprietors of the Metropolitan Wharf 

 where your Coffee is always warehoused. 



2. The Wharfingers have the Coffee sent to them 

 exactly in the same manner as if it were not in 

 husk. 



3. Cleaned with every despatch unless it is 

 damp when it has to be dried for which an extra 

 charge is made. 



4. The Coffee is sized but not garbled as hand- 

 picking is far too costly here. 



5. The colour of London cleaned Coffee is ge- 

 nerally very good indeed, but is not so peimanent 

 as Colonial preparation. 



6. Barrels add so much to the Freight as you 

 have to find room for the beans in parchment, 

 which of course occupy so much more space. 

 There is not often any great damage in the R. M. 

 ships. 



7. 4/ per cwt. including barrels. 2/6 in original 

 bags. 



8. Being cleaned in bond, it is treated just the 

 same as ordinary Coffee. 



9. The Coffee is at just the same position as 

 ever, the B/ lading is handed to the Wharfingers 

 who clean the Coffee and send samples to the 

 Brokers. 



grown Coffee we should advise the Coffee to be 

 re-packed into barrels and we give the inclusive 

 charge in No. 7. 



11. Cannot be too dry. 



NUTMEGS. 



An erroneous in pression has gained 



than 



of Tropical 

 likely 



Mr. John Davidson writes :-« Mine are all doing splendMly'at Bellevue, at an elevation of 1 500 



Tw^°5ifW ^ I,, 'Ti S n C n h |! ) ? le ! Writ if 8 fr T ? re " ada ' "Nutmegs in my experience thrive and bear 

 us well at 1,500 feet as at 1,000 feet ;— beyond the former elevation f know nothing from our exoe 

 vience here. ° r c 



The following letlers give similar testimony. 



My Dear Mr. Fawoett, King8t0D ' 28 > l892 ' 



* *J n t t0 y° UT S ot ? of * h u e 26 T t} ? received to-day, my nutmegs are growing at between 1,800 and 



2,000 feet above sea level. When I last saw them 10 weeks ago there was no sign of blight and I 

 have not heard of any since. Only some 6 or 8 are fruiting, but they are nearly all growing so healthily 

 that I am going on planting them. ■ a j 



One tree I have has an enormous amount of fruit on, the boughs being all bent down under the 

 weight, it is a really fane sight and makes the tree look quite golden. 



Yours, etc. W. Eloik Sant. 



Dear Mr. Fawoett, Kingston, May 2, 1892 



In rep y to yours of the 30th ultimo, I found 1 he Nutmeg which is now bearing so heavily at 

 Langley, when I bought the place in 1879. But it had been quite neglected along with 2 others and 

 remained so for say 2 years when it was about 18 inches high and probably 4 years old From that 

 time it has been carefully looked after say for the lust 9| years. Very roughly it is now about 20 feet 

 high, and it has been bearing for 3 years. My other trees just coming into bearing are about 7 to 8 

 years old, and I have other trees only about 2 years old from the time the seed was planted in the 

 nursery. Not all my 7 to 8 year old trees are bearing, though I think pretty well all the male ones 



