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This is divided into longitudinal cavities, in which the nuts 

 are placed in rows ; they are about the size of a cherry, of an 

 oblong rounded shape. The cocoa trees are planted in rows, 

 at twelve or fourteen feet distance, and form beautiful and 

 shady plantations. 



The coffee-bush generally grows in the plantations to six 

 feet in height. The trunk is covered with a bark of a greyish 

 brown colour. The branches arise from the trunk near the 

 earth, and grow all around in a horizontal direction. The 

 lowest branches are about eighteen inches in length, but they 

 grow shorter as they approach the top, so that a cofFee-tree is 

 in the shape of a cone. The leaves are about three inches 

 long, and one and a half broad, pointed and green. The 

 flower consists of five petals, several stamina and one pistil. 

 The germ contains two kernels, covered by a pericarp. Of 

 this fruit there are two crops in the year, and each tree yields 

 about a pound and a half at a crop. The coffee-trees are 

 planted in rows at the distance of five feet. 



The cocoa-nut-tree grows to fifty or sixty feet in height, and 

 is seldom either perfectly straight or erect. It is covered by 

 a bark of an ash colour, which at the top of the tree becomes 

 green. The branches commence very near the top. They 

 are about fifteen feet long, and twenty or thirty in number. 

 The leaves are about eighteen inches long near the trunk, and 



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