( si ) 
called by the French a Passe-par-toat —by Eng¬ 
lish mechanics, a Compass-Saw ; which, by the 
narrowness of its blade, can be inserted among the 
thickly interwoven branches, 
4 • \ 
Having now committed our young plant to the 
Soil, with an earnest injunction to the person in 
charge to take a parental interest in its welfare, 
particularly by frequent and faithful weedings, wc 
must begin to think of preparing for the busy avo¬ 
cations of Crop; to which, as we consider this 
Treatise as a guide for conducting an Estate already 
formed, and having mature and productive, as 
well as young and declining Coffee, thereon, the 
anxious cares of the Manager must now be called 
forward. We will therefore here quit our concern 
for the yotlng plant, which it is, however, to be 
hoped will not relax in his attention to, even 
through the hurry and bustle incident to crop-time. 
There is another object of considerable import¬ 
ance in the cultivation part of a Coffee-Estate, 
which we shall treat of when we come to that stagfe 
of our w r ork, which is the ridding the mature trees 
from Suckers ; a term which we have used under 
the article of Pruning, and which perhaps, in order 
to have preserved a strict adherence to regularity 
of arrangement, should have preceded it. These 
are, as before observed, certain exuberant perpen¬ 
dicular shoots, issuing generally where the alti¬ 
tude of the trees has been arrested, and sometimes 
lower. As these are generally more prevalent af¬ 
ter 
Sucker?. 
