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mean something like £20 profit, and I believe such 
crops can be got by high cultivation, at all events they 
are obtained in Ceylon where the land, according to Sir 
JAMES LONGDEN, is not nearly so rich as it is in the 
West Indies. 
One disadvantage in planting coffee is the length of 
time the tree takes before it comes into bearing, but to 
those who have sufficient capital, and who are able to 
wait for three or four years no better cultivation can be 
chosen. A coffee estate is a charming sight at all times ; 
the various operations of cultivatiqn and preparation of 
the crop are full of interest ; and the undertaking is 
certain to be remunerative, more or less, according to 
the amount of care and intelligence brought to bear on 
the cultivation. 
At the beginning of this century a large proportion of 
the coffee consumed in the world was grown in the West 
Indies, and now, in some of the colonies, coffee cultiva- 
tion is a matter of past history. Its decline was due to 
different causes in the various colonies, but these causes 
do not now exist, or their effects are no longer insuper- 
able, and the Liberian coffee planter, for whom this 
article has been mainly written, can now command the 
success that he deserves as the pioneer of a new industry. 
If he be able to derive any useful information from the 
foregoing record of many experiments and of several 
years' experience, there will be a partial realisation of 
the writer's earnest hope to help to establish new and 
remunerative industries in these fertile lands which should 
be the homes of a busy and prosperous people. 
QG 
