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[ To  be  continued.) 
COFFEE  PLANTING  IN  BRITISH  CENTRAL 
AFRICA. 
A despatch  has  been  received  at  the  Foreign  Offlee 
from  Sir  H.  H.  Johnston,  Her  Majesty’s  Commissioner 
aad  Consul-General  in  British  Central  Africa’  with 
regard  to  coffee  planting  in  these  parts. 
Sir  H.  H.  Johnston  states  that  coffee  flourishes  in 
almost  any  part  of  the  British  Central  Africa  Protec- 
torate. At  one  lime  it  was  thought  that  its  cultivation 
must  be  confined  to  the  highlands  above  2,000  ft  in 
altitude,  but  it  has  since  been  found  that  coffee  grows 
equally  well  in  quite  low-lying  parts.  The  Liberian 
coffee,  of  course,  actually  grows  better  in  the  tropical 
plains,  but  as  this  kind  does  not  fetch  such  high  prices 
as  the  Mocha  variety,  whicli  is  the  kind  chiefly  planted 
in  Bri  ish  Central  Africa,  it  rather  the  facilities  for 
growing  the  last-named  variety  which  must  be  taken 
hrst  into  consideration.  It  is  not  that  the  Moeba 
coffee  will  grow  quite  as  well  in  the  plains  not  many 
feet  above  the  level  of  the  sea  as  it  will  in  the  hills,  but 
it  may  be  stated  posi-tively  th-at  it  grows  as  well  at  an 
altitude  of  900  it.  above  the  sea  as  at  3,000  ft.  Above 
3,500  ft.  the  coffee  is  liable  to  be  nipped  by  frost  in 
the  cool  season. 
Throughout  British  Central  Africa  the  soil  is  nearly 
every-where  very  fertile — too  fertile  in  some  places— 
as  it  is  absolutely  virgin  soil,  and  this  excessive  rich- 
ness is  doubtless  the  cause  of  much  of  the  malarial 
fever  which  prevails.  Not  only  is  the  soil  rich,  but  it 
is  every  where  well  watered  by  perennial  streams  which 
render  irrigation  during  the  dry  season  practicable. 
The  average  rainfall  in  British  Central  Africa  is 
50  ins.  per  annum,  but  in  most  of  the  districts  it  is 
about  45.  The  least  rainfall  iu  many  district  is  prob- 
ably 36  ins.  The  highest  rainfall  is  in  parts  of  the 
Mlanjd  disirict,  where  it  at'ains  in  some  years  over 
100  inches.  The  rain  fads  piincipally  in  the  months 
of  December,  January,  February,  March,  and  April. 
There  are  heavy  rains  at  the  latter  end  of  November, 
and  occasional  showers  in  May  and  June.  It  often 
occurs  also  that  rain  falls  in  the  hills  during  August. 
In  the  hill-country— and  most  of  British  Central 
Africa  may  be  described  as  such  — it  may  be  said  that 
