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The Plantations are chiefly made near the Feet of Mountains, 
and upon gentle riling Grounds ; and they always chule fuch 
Places as are mofl: fliady, and bell; fupply’d with Water. 
The greatell part of the Culture conlills in bringing Watel* 
from Sources^ and little Rivulets found in the Mountains, by 
Streams or Channels carried on purpole, cjuite round the Trees 
for they mull be well watered and kept moill, in order both to 
frudify, as they ought, and to bring their Fruit to due Maturity. 
And therefor^ whenever the Arabians have a mind to tranlplant 
young Trees, they begin by making a Ditch three Foot wide and 
five deep, which they border or line with Pebbles and Flint-Stones, 
that the Water with which the Ditch is filled, may the more 
ea/ily penetrate a great way into the Earth, and fo prelerve a due 
Moillure there. But when they fee a great deal of ripe Fruit 
upon the Trees, they let olf the Water from about them, that 
the Fruit may not be hindered from drying upon the Branches, 
as much as is neceflary it fhould. 
If the French Officers had not travelled to Mo^ah^ the Capital 
of Temen, we fhould flill have been ignorant of one Particularity 
which relates to the Coffee-Trees, and has hitherto been taken 
notice of by no Author, That in Places that lie towards 
the South, or are very much expoled, the Coffee-Trees are 
planted under other great Trees, which they take to be a kind of 
Poplars 5 and thele lerve to skreen them from the exceflive Heat 
of the Sun. The Inhabitants are perfuaded, that without this 
Shade, the Flowers of the Coffee -Tree would be loon quite 
burnt up, and lo never produce any Fruit ; and our Travellers 
were convinced of the truth of this, by what tliey oblerved in 
fome Trees, errowins in fuch Places without the Advantaoe of a 
Shade. Thele Poplars extend their Branches very much on all 
fides, and form a fort of Umbrella^ which covers intirely what- 
ever is found under it. . 
It was at lome diftance from the City of Tagus where they 
faw the firlf Coffee -Trees, that they likewile oblerved this 
Singularity , the Country being there open, and much expoled 
to the burning Heat of the Sun. Each Poplar had a certain 
number of Coffee -Trees under it, through the whole Planta- 
tion 5 they being planted in Rows, as they do the Apple-Trees 
in Normandy. 
In other Places which are not fo much expoled to the Sun, 
thele fliady Trees are not to be found, there being no occa- 
fion for them : But there, .ls well as every where elle, 
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