I52 TlMEHRI. 
If there are no appliances to peel and prepare the coffee for shipment 
at Georgetown or on the estates, I would recommend planters to send 
their produce to London in parchment. The pulp, of course, must be 
removed on the estate as quickly after picking and as carefully as pos- 
sible, and the parchment must be perfectly clean and dry : when in that 
state, it can be sent to London, not only without risk, but with the cer- 
tainty that it will preserve the berry during the voyage. Highly suc- 
cessful and encouraging experiments have been made here during the 
present year, which show that coffee peeled and sized in London has 
kept its colour and quality extremely well, and has so far, in every case, 
realised more than the same kind of coffee prepared and peeled abroad. 
Suitable machinery has been put up at " Red Lion Wharf " and at 
" Metropolitan Wharf", and I believe that some of the Dock Com- 
panies contemplate erecting similar works. 
I trust that the above remarks may be of some interest, and perhaps 
of use to the planters in your colony. 
H. Pasteur. 
BRITISH GUIANA COCOA. 
Mincing Lane, London, 18th Nov., 1886. 
It is with much pleasure I hand you a report upon the samples of 
Cocoa exhibited in the British Guiana Court. 
They at once attracted my attention from their remarkable quality 
and fine growth. No other cocoa in the Exhibition could compete with 
them except Trinidad, to which they bear great resemblance. 
It seems to me that the soil and conditions of temperature and cli- 
mate, must be quite adequate to the production on a good scale of a 
very superior cocoa, especially fitted for the use of English manu- 
factures. I find on going through the samples again that there is a 
difference on the part of three of them compared with the other seven. 
No. 9, a bright red, unfermented, and rather small in size, is evidently 
the produce of an inferior tree. No. 5, some accident in the curing had 
deprived of its proper value. No. II, which I understand is grown 
in Berbice, has also a distinct character, more allied to the growth of 
Surinam than to Trinidad, the flavour good, superior to Surinam, but 
differing from that of Trinidad. 
Of the remainder, Nos. 7 and 8 are very large size, fine flavour, and 
the breaking up of the bean shows the color a red brown that is gene- 
rally liked. No. 6, 6 a, 7 a, 12 and 13 are all after the style of Trinidad 
in their quality and flavour. 
