the method of transplanting is clearly shown in a much increased 
yield from those trees which were transplanted with their roots in- 
cased in the soil from the nursery. It is reasonable to suppose that 
the difference in crop will not stop with this record, but will show 
up in the future, since the difference in development of the two 
groups is still evident. 
SUMMARY OF RESULTS OF THE TESTS. 
Under the conditions of the experiments coffee seedlings with only 
five to six pairs of leaves, when transplanted with the roots incased 
in a ball of earth from the nursery, show little difference in early 
growth and yield as a result of transplanting from those trans- 
planted with roots bare of earth,' provided the latter transplanting 
is properly done. 
By leaving the seedlings in the nursery a year longer than the 
above a more even stand may be obtained, since the plants are then 
thriftier and better able to cope with unfavorable conditions. That 
the nursery may be kept in condition at a cost considerably less than 
that of caring for the trees after transplanting is also a factor which 
makes it advisable to leave the seedlings in the nursery until the 
second rainy season after planting the seed. 
When the seedlings are transplanted from the nursery to the plan- 
tation at approximately 18 to 20 months after planting the seed, a 
considerably earlier growth and increased yield may be expected to 
result from transplanting with the roots incased in the block of soil 
in which the seedlings have grown in the nursery rather than with 
the roots free of soil. This difference should be considerably greater 
in the average planting than in the experiments reported, since in the 
latter care was taken to avoid breaking and drying out the roots of 
those plants which were removed without soil, a precaution not 
always observed in ordinary plantation practice. 
At the end of one year, in the first test reported, the trees trans- 
planted with their roots incased in the soil in which they had grown 
measured 35 per cent more in height than the check, and at the end 
of two years, 23 per cent more than the check. Their yield the 
second year was double that of the check. 
In the second test the increased growth for the first year was 
nearly 12 per cent greater for the trees transplanted with roots in 
earth than that of the check, while their yield the second year was 
three times as great as that of the check. 
In the third experiment the increase in height for trees so trans- 
planted was 43 per cent greater than that of the check at the end 
of two years. At one year from setting 34 per cent of the former 
fruited against 2 per cent of the check trees. At two years from 
setting 95 per cent of the trees transplanted Avith roots in a ball 
