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hike other tniit trees, Jhe Coffee i.> acted upon 
•by the seasons, and the .ate and early blossoms 
become contingent, upon them. In warm dis¬ 
tricts the March blossom is most, calculated on — 
although expectations for a crop are not given 
over, till May has passed away, in the colder 
regions blossoming may commence in March or 
May, which is considered early ; but July and 
August give strongest and most general blossoms. 
1 have, however, seen large blossoms in Septem¬ 
ber and October, such being the peculiar changes 
brought about by the seasons. Three good blos¬ 
soms are usually looked tor, but 1 have known 
good crops, made ol one heavy and regular 
blossom. 
Coffee blossoms shoot out in bunches, not un¬ 
like those of the Spanish Jasmine—but they 
decay in the course of two days, when the fruit 
is supposed to be set, anu formed upon each 
blossom—the latter either drying, or, in heavy 
rams, falling off the tree. In cold climates the 
fields will be seen for months in a continual 
spitting blossom, and yet no fruit results—as 
the blossoms are chilled previous to set¬ 
ting: and sometimes the young fruit, after be- 
ing formed, becomes chilled, turns black, and 
drops off. 
In warm climates the fruit advances rapidly, 
and in the < ourse of a month will have grown 
to the size of a small pea; but in could loca¬ 
lities, two months will elapse before it has ar¬ 
rived at that stage. While the fruit is young 
till the kernel begins to form, it will resist the 
influence of dry weather; but after that period 
n droops, and feels much the want of moisture 
as if nature, at that particular juncture* required 
