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hlay be collected and administered to the roots of 
such of the next adjacent trees as may most re¬ 
quire it. 
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1 shall, in the course of this work, submit to the Draihing, 
consideration of the reader the plan of a mode I 
had suggested for draining a piece of ground of my 
own, which, though oh a slope, was a little springy* 
in a long continuance of rainy weather. 
When a Coffee-piece is reduced to d situation re-Pruning* 
quiring manure, Priming becomes sometimes a ne¬ 
cessary operation ; though whenever this occurs, 
it is an indubitable sign of negligence ; for if proper 
attention is paid to the tree at the different periods of 
Weeding, it will only increase its circumference, by 
branches which will increase the quantity of its fruit. 
The suckers therefore (with what Mr. La boric terms 
the gormandizing branch*) w 7 ill be all that will re¬ 
quire removal. 
As the Coffee-Planter may, however, be obliged 
to resort to the operation of pruning, from the neg¬ 
ligence of his predecessor in charge, and of that 
species of pruning performed by the sa\v, and may 
be rather called amputation, from aU occasional 
failure of some of the old trees, we shall make that 
operation a section in this Essay. Besides 
* A large branch which issues from the top of the tree, and 
spreads horizontally over the other branches. This branch is ge- 
nerally so loaded with berries, that some Planters are thereby in¬ 
duced not to remove it. But it is alledged (and justly) that its 
abundant productiveness exhausts the tree, and prevents its 
subsequent fecundity. For which reason it should be removed 
by the operation of the knife. 
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