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method than tile Author 'Originally intended, it 
may not be amiss to introduce the* caUtioli: for, 
as the experienced Planter well knows, if it remains 
long on the Estate after cleaning, it will turnewliite, 
which (although hot with any soli cl ground/'Colour 
being in the Colonial Market the grand criterion of 
quality) will cause its condemnation to sell at an. 
inferior price. 
Before we come to the last and most important 
section of this Work—“ The Government, Care and 
Treatment of the Negroes/'—-wer shall once more 
call forth the attention of the Coffee-Planter to his 
young trees.—We hope they are, at this period, in 
good plight, clean of weeds, and answering hi$ 
most sanguine expectations^ 
Some patches, or parts of patches, have perhaps 
attained a sufficient perpendicular height to ren- 
dei .proper the stopping their further progress, 
and to require the operation of topping or stopping— 
that is, taking off the top of the sprout at die 
height to which you mean to limit the altitude of’ 
your trees. This operation is : .at this stage easily 
done (and this is the stage most proper for its per¬ 
formance) by nipping it off with the thumb nail 
It should be done about an inch or two above the 
two uppermost opposite branches, as by perform¬ 
ing it too near them, the remaining stem may at 
that part he liable to split. * y • 
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7 crt »*ttb e joints acquire elongation in 
the aiter growth of the tree. Laborie acknowledges himself in 
doubt 
