carrier will forcibly drive into the ground in four 
places, about twelve inches from each picquet, so as 
to form a square circumscribing it as equi-distant as 
the eye will permit: And, having pierced the 
ground to a sufficient depth, and opened the ori¬ 
fice sufficiently wide to receive the root of the plant 
with all its fibres, the carrier of the plant will put 
in four plants to each picquet, inserting them to 
the depth at which they were growing originally, 
and close the soil round them. The reason of in¬ 
troducing four plants is, that you may have 
your choice of the two best of them, of which you 
will make your election after they are a little ad* 
vanced in growth. The other two may be thrown 
away ; or, if good plants, will serve to supply those 
places where the plants may either fail or sustain 
injury. 
It is highly probable that single trees would thrive 
better, and give more produce than in the above 
mode of rearing them in pairs : but as the Coffee 
plant is obnoxious to a variety of accidents, as in¬ 
jury by the rolling of stones, disease, and even 
a premature death, without any outward visible 
cause ; was the planter to place his whole depen¬ 
dence on a single Tree to a picquet, the destruc¬ 
tion of such tree would cause so great a breach in 
his piece as would require some years to fill up : 
Whereas one, of a pair, being destroyed, its part¬ 
ner spreads its branches in his place, and in a short 
time the deficiency becomes imperceptible. 
Some 
