cess of manufticturing that extract, from the 

 fHlQiecting- of the prunings, the stripping of the 



from five to^cvL'ii feet high, with rathef drooping 

 branches ; tlie time of coHecting, is when tlie 

 shrubs require pruning, whicli is usually every 

 ^ iniontlis ; and the trees would be injured, if 

 not dBSfriOfeMl lit value, ^biB!^^ m% wgaktlj 

 pruned. It is stated, that one shrub will exist 

 and produt'c the oxtnict ior twentv-five or thirty 

 years, if properly and regularly attended to : 

 every care is taken to keep the plantations free 



1 have observed, that the time of c(Mj^^S^§ fhie 

 leaves for the manufacture of the extract, was at 

 the time tlie shrubs reijiiired pruning'. Tiiis, on 

 passing througli a plantation, I had an oppor- 

 tunity of witnie$siilg+ Tfe^toote^ikiai 

 were eut off with a pmning Itnife^ cdl«cted into 

 baskets, and then conveyed to the boiliiio'-house, 

 whicli is erected in tlu^ midst (»f Ciamlur |)Ian- 

 tations, the wdiole of Avhicdi, at the period of 

 laj visiting dim, W€m in full 0j^eas0m ; the 

 Ieav€% 9m tlien strippdl fixm ilt^ pifwii^d hfimeh^i 



in the boiling-liouse, and afterwards phiced into 

 theQualic or cauhh'on ; (whicli is made ol' l>ark, 

 with an iron bottom ;) inider this is an enor- 



