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old holds they grow naturally from the stock. 
It is proper that they should be exterohnated 
that is taken clear out at the socket, whenever 
no tree can stand such a course,—-but when 
?ht,y have assumed the place of primaries which 
have been wantonly destroyed, it is impossible 
to change their order, for so soon as one is 
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cat away, another is sure to resume its place, 
in that case, it will be as weli to allow them 
t.o remain and bear, taking them out after 
every crop 
Pruning is as essential to the cultivation and 
renovation of the Coffee tree, as medicine is 
to rhe restoration of the sick man's health. It 
has therefore, somewhat surprised me to hear 
men whom the world have thought experience 
had made safe in nature's laws, condemn pru¬ 
ning as uncalled for and injurious to the Cof¬ 
fee tree. Fields have been known to bear for 
a succession of years, after an eiuire absence 
of the pruning knife , but it has been as well 
observed that the trees suffer most materially 
after that period and will not produce any 
fruits for another term of years. Mr. Stamp 
the former proprietor of Mt. Holstein in St 
George's, tried this plan—fie fud an overseer 
who was a good pruner, and kept the property 
in good pruning order, but who left in 1830 
IVJr. Stamp neglected pruning altogether, after 
ho took upon himself the active management— 
the fields bore heavily for four years after, but 
subsequently fell off most alarmingly, it .had 
previously averaged its 120 tierces, but fell off 
to 20.— 
The injury sustained from neglect of pruning 
«>r perveise obstinaov in decrying me use of 
