Colonial Exhibition, 1886. 
the only island of the West Indies where cultivation is 
carried out on a large scale. This island, which in 1885 
exported 80,600 cwt., possesses in the high lands of the 
Blue Mountains, one of the finest coffee growing distri6ls 
in the world. 
Mr. PASTEUR evidently has an unfavourable opinion 
of Liberian coffee which has been to some extent tried 
in this colony. He says its quality is so poor, so 
deficient in strength and aroma, and so little appreciated 
in the home markets, that any material increase in supply 
must inevitably tend to a lower range of prices, which 
will fail to repay the outlay. The value set on the 
specimens shewn ranged from 140s. to 47s. per cwt. 
The Liberian was worth 50s. 
Nearly all the other West Indian colonies sent 
exhibits of coffee, which in the case of most of them was 
an important article of export in byegone years, but is 
now scarcely cultivated. Dominica, which at one time 
produced one of the best kinds in the market, suffered 
from an inseft blight forty years ago, and now raises not 
more than equals the consumption in the island. 
Trinidad, Mr. PASTEUR considers well fitted for the 
growth of coffee, — the shape and size of the berries 
showing that soil and climate are favourable, and that 
only labour, care and skill are required to give the 
coffee its proper value. 
The Reporter is of opinion that the samples from 
British Guiana tend to prove that excellent coffee can be 
grown in this colony. These specimens w T ere affe6led 
by sugar, and if this produft ever assumes its place as an 
article of export, it will be necessary to avoid its being 
so injured, either by shipping the bean in its parchment 
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