Th* tree? often become so matted touarnv 
the heart, from an excess of vegetation after 
pruning, as to become entirely impervious to 
the rays of tlie sun, forming perfect umbrellas, 
under which a person might seek shelter from 
a shower of rain. It therefore must be obvious 
that their state could not resist the consequences 
which must ensue from the heavy rains that 
fall usually in October and November. They 
would rather harbor the wet, and accelerate 
their own destruction. This event, is brought 
about in a most remarkable manner, the leaves 
contract and drop off, the branches being pre¬ 
viously chilled, and in many cases the latter 
die off; but should this not ensue, so far as the 
ensuing crop is concerned, the wood becomes 
totally unfit for bearing, A new vegetation will 
come, on in the spring; but from the bleakness 
of the climate, the wood which thus generates 
will not ripen in time for that crop, but may be 
available in the ensuing year, if proper care be 
used that a repetition of the last year’s proceedings 
does not take place. 
Having said thus much of pruning, it will 
be necessary to make a few observations on an 
other portion of cultivation—the weeding. I 
have given precedence to a consideration of the 
art of pruning, because 1 conceive that part 
of cultivation, of paramount importance. The 
due cleaning of Coffee fields is equally requisite 
to their proper culture ; but this forms a mere 
piece of physical labour, requiring neither skill 
nor ingenuity in its exercise. The African, the 
Hiodostanee, or the European, who perhaps 
never knew the use of o plantation hoe, soon 
becomes acquainted with its work, placed a'nng 
