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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ April, 
COFFEA LIBERIOA. 
ONSIDERABLE commercial interest 
attaches to tlie Liberian Coffee, Coffeci 
liberica , a species introduced from 
Liberia, on the West Coast of Africa, and now 
attracting considerable attention in all the 
coffee-growing countries of the world. Mr. 
Bull, who was one of the original importers, 
remarks, in his New Plant Catalogue , that it 
much larger than those of C. arabica , and the 
plant much more productive, added to which 
it produces lai’ge crops at a low elevation, 
where C. arabica could not be successfully 
cultivated. 
The plant, as above noted, is much stouter 
and more vigorous than the common Coffee, 
having leaves fully twice the size, the flowers 
is a plant of the highest commercial import¬ 
ance, and in all probability the most valuable 
.economic introduction of the present century. 
It is of robust and vigorous growth, with very 
large coriaceous leaves, which in form are ellip¬ 
tic-oblong and shortly acuminate at the point. 
The flowers are produced in axillary clusters in 
great profusion. The berries of this coffee are 
and berries bearing a similar proportion to 
those of the better-known species. It thus 
forms a noble specimen of striking character in 
a mixed collection, and apart from the interest 
attaching to it as a valuable commercial pro¬ 
duct, is well worth a place in a mixed collec¬ 
tion of stove plants. The annexed figure 
shows the plant very much reduced.—T. M. 
THE CULTURE OF WALL FRUITS. 
Chapter XXIII. 
S HE culture of the Cherry as a wall fruit 
cannot be dispensed with in this un¬ 
certain climate. Pyramids and Stand¬ 
ards in the open air may be, and ought to be, 
utilised to the greatest extent for culinary and 
market purposes, for which they are princi¬ 
pally adapted; but when we come to the more 
choice productions require I by a cultivated and 
refined taste for dessert purposes, we must either 
have recourse to their culture under an extended 
S 3 istem of glass, arranged especially for their re¬ 
quirements, which is very expensive; or we must 
resort to wall culture, from which by far the 
best results are to be obtained. Any kind 
of cherry will produce much finer fruit when 
cultivated on a wall than without this aid; but 
there are some of the superior varieties of the 
•THE CHERRY. 
Bigarreau section, such as Napoleon, Monstrueux 
de Mezel, and several others, besides the Old 
Bigarreau, for which a wall may be said to be 
indispensable in order to obtain the finest fruits 
for dessert. For this reason I make no apology 
for including this favourite fruit among those 
whose culture on walls I am discussing. 
Morellos. —The growth of cherry-trees is 
various in character, and their little peculiarities 
must be studied in their management. That fine 
old cherry the Morello, for example, so admirably 
adapted for growing on northern aspects, pro¬ 
duces long slender shoots, which form fruit- 
buds the same season, and from which the 
finest fruits are obtained the first year. The 
treatment, therefore, during the growing sea¬ 
son, should be confined to the training-in of as 
