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CHAP. V. 
. The Root, Trunk and Branches of the Cofee 
Riant. 
r* 1 ^ H O’ the Coffee Tree is now to be found in many Gar- 
\ dens about London, it has been my Misfortune as yet ne- 
ver to have had a full Opportunity of examining thefe Parts of 
it which make the Subject of this Article. I fhall, however, 
venture to communicate the few Obfervations I have hitherto 
been able to make about them 5 leaving a more perfed: Deferip- 
tion of them to be fupply’d by fome other Hand^ in cafe I Ihould 
never be in a Condition to do it my felf 
The Coffee Fruit being planted in a convenient Soil, the firft 
Part of the fucceeding Tree which appears above Ground, is the 
feminal Leaves^ and as foon as they are fpread, the tender Stem 
may be perceived to fprout out betwixt them tip’d with two 
other Leaves of the fame Kind with thofe that always remain on 
the Plant. From between thefe, another Portion of the Stalk 
may in a little time afterwards be perceived to flioot, crown’d 
likewife with a new Pair of Leaves lying in a Plain which cuts the 
former at rio;ht Andes, and in this manner the tender Trunk ad- 
vances. 
How long it is before the firfl Branches begin to appear, I 
cannot certainly tell j I law a young Plant in Mr. Sherrard's Gar- 
den, feven Inches high, bearing five Pair of Leaves, befides the 
feminal ones, without any Veftige of Branches. But when they 
do arife, their Manner of Growth is much the fame with that 
of the Trunk. They come out in crofs Pairs from the Al<s of 
the above-mention’d Leaves, and all of them make acute Angles 
with the Stem, thofe neareft the Top being moll inclined. 
Neither is the Defcent of the Root, in all Appearance, much 
different from the Afcent of the Trunk and Branches-, for in a 
very fmall Plant which I had the good Fortune to get with the 
Root entire, I obferv’d it to run down for a good way pretty 
flrait, and that afterwards it bent feveral Vv ays, very long Fibres 
ariling from it thro’ its whole Length, moll of them flanding 
the fame Y 7 ay as the Branches do on the Trunk, only much more 
numerous, and, as far as I could find, in a Pofition not always 
exactly reguiar, As the Plant grows up, fome of the Fibres^ 
2 which 
