The reader here has his option of two very op¬ 
posite doctrines. I should be very sorry to incul¬ 
cate habits of laziness ; but must observe, that the 
Coffee-Planter will experience sufficient occasions 
to exercise his industry and activity, without ex¬ 
pending it in useless labour. * 
And now it is begins the Planter’s toil.—To Weetlm s* 
rear every species of plant to a state of luxuriance, 
the weeds and grass must be carefully extirpated ; 
and in this point Coffee, particularly in its infancy, 
calls forth the strictest attention. Your weeding 
must therefore be early, and frequently repeated ; 
for, should your young plant so far feel neglect in 
this most essential point, as to change its colour 
from the luxuriant dark green to a pale yellow, it 
will sustain such an irreparable injury, as time and 
after-labour can scarcely ever surmount. 
Yet, whilst young*, the intermediate spaces may Aamis ' ible 
J 07 . 1 . . plants m va- 
be occupied by other useful plants, without infury cant *paces <>£ 
-i . ^ i • i i i Coffee-pieces. 
to the piece ; or which the least annoyant is the 
Tannier, the Edda, or Malanga j*. Plantains may 
be thinly distributed at moderate distances ; but 
they must be thinned as the Coffee advances to ma¬ 
turity ; nor will rows of Pigeon-Peas, or Pois- 
Angole, particularly the dwarf kind, through the 
centers of some of the rows, be of prejudice ; but, 
on the contrary, a protection:—But Yams, and 
running 
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* Laborie directs the furnishing of these holes but with a 
single tree. 
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