leo WONDHRS OF TUB TROPICAL FORKSTS. 
resembling the flower of the jasmine. The fruit wlucli 
succeeds is a green berry, ripening into red, of the size 
and form of a large cherry, and having a pale, insipid, 
and somewhat glutinous pulp^ enclosing two hard and 
oval seeds or beans, which are too well known to require 
any further description. 
The seeds are known to be ripe when the berries assume 
a dark red colour, and if not; then gathered, will drop from 
the trees. 
To be cultivated to advantage, the coffee- tree rec^uia'es a 
climate where the mean temperature of the year amounts 
to 68*', and where the thermometer never falls below 55". 
lb is by nature a forest tree requiring shade and moisture, 
and thus it is necessary to screen it from the scorching 
rays of the sun by planting rows of umbrageous trees at 
certain intervals throughout tbe fielt]. These also ser%^e 
to protect it from the sharp winds which would injure the 
blossoms. It cannot bear either excessive heat or a long- 
continued drought, and where rain does not fall in suffi- 
cient quantity, artificial irrigation must supply it with 
the necessary moisture. 
In Java the zone of the coffee- plan fat ions extends 
between 3000 and 4000 feet above the level of the sea ; 
and the primitive forest is constantly receding before 
them. Frequently^ on felling tho woods, a part of the 
original trees is left standing to shade the tender coffee- 
plants ; but oftener the rows are made to alternate with 
those of the sheltering dadab. Thus a new and luxuriant 
grove replaces the old thicket of nature^s planting. Straight 
paths, kept carefully clean, lead througli the tlense, dark 
green shrabbery, under whose tliick cover the wild cock 
hastily retreats when surprised by the wanderer. When 
the trees are in flower, the branches seem to bend under 
a weight of snow, from the number of dazzling white 
blossoms, which form a pleasing contrast to the dark and 
lustrons foliage, while high above, the dadabs extend their 
airy crowns, whose light green leaves ai-e agreeably' inter- 
