tbo pruning knitV. must ultimately fail ser;- 
‘ousiy on the proprietors of coffee properties, for 
file outlay requisite to put a neglected field in 
good order, is equal to three times that which 
would have sufficed for an ordinary pruning;, 
besides the total loss of two or may be three 
years’ crops. A tree once matted up, and al¬ 
lowed to pass over a winter, is sure to lose 
a portion of its primary branches, from the want 
of a circulation of air. As these cannot be 
replaced, the tree forms a perfect umbrella, 
and fruit can only be obtained from the top 
branches, after the tree has undergone a thorough 
pruning, and almost a re-organisation of wood. 
In lowland districts, and more especially in 
Manchester, St. Elizabeths, and St. Thomas in 
the Vale, very little pruning is required, and 
the same is applicable to fields established on 
light and sandy soils. In these districts, the 
breaking off the dry wood, and nipping oti a 
few switches constitute the whole an—but in the 
high mountains, where the trees grow to an 
exuberance, to cover an area of form thirty to 
fifty feet, the art of pruning them is replete with 
science, and forrue a most essential feature of their 
cultivation. 
Gentlemen who have been accustomed to the 
management of properties in those districts, where 
the trees are small, become entirely bewildered, 
when they behold the magnificent foliage, which 
the fields exhibit in the high mountains. In 
this manner, great errors accrue, and muck 
injury is sustained, by endeavoring to assimilate 
the extent of pruning requisite in the one dis¬ 
trict to that of the other. I have also observed 
that the negroes ,vhc had been brought, up in 
