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essayed various species of plants for the purpose, 
Fois-doux. ovcr aH which the Pois-doux obtained (andjustly) 
the preference, the rage of Plantership was all di¬ 
rected to fences of that plant; and many Planta¬ 
tions became so covered with them, you could 
scarce discern any thing else. There is no doubt 
that, although Pois-doux is a plant favourable to 
Coffee, that, where Coffee is too much crowded 
with it, it will not bear: Yet this is not a reason 
for adopting a system, which some Planters are be¬ 
ginning to embrace, of cutting it all down. Having 
escaped for a series of years from a Hurricane, they 
begin to forget its ravages. But, independent of 
the protection afforded by this plant, at proper in¬ 
tervals, the Coffee-Planter must consider its utility 
in an horizontal direction on hill-sides ; its cheer¬ 
ing effects upon the Coffee, in contributing its 
cuttings, to prevent the thirsty rays of the Sun 
from absorbing the moisture of the Soil, and keep¬ 
ing down weeds and grass. Its various good 
offices certainly require some acknowledgment : 
The Pois-doux stands in the predicament of a ve¬ 
teran Servant ; who, having faithfully discharged 
his duty, it would be ungenerous wholly to discard, 
because his Services may not be so frequently use¬ 
ful to us as formerly. 
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But to return to our subject of lining.— 
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It is, I believe, the custom of Coffee-Planters in - 
general to plant their Coffee in every row picquet- 
ed, and afterwards to plant their Pois-doux , at such 
interval? 
