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ace m the field. This*method is out of the question for Queensland, as 
tn ts Bot plentiful enough, and I merely mention it as a method almost 
iversally in yogue where possible. 
ee Another method is to cut bamboo into lengths, and use each bit as a 
dt pot in much the same way as the baskets, the bamboo pots being 
ile with a blow from a small scrub knife when put out in the field. Pots are 
*0 Sometimes made in a rough mould of ordinary earth, kneaded with water. 
ie he are square, about 4 inches across, having a small hollow, 2 by 4 inches 
middle; these stand together in beds, and the roots of the seedlings grow into 
rie When planting out, the squares of earth come away fairly easily, but 
€ earth is apt to become too hard in the process, or to conglomerate on being 
“quently watered. 
ay pots are sometimes made in a rough-and-ready way if clay is available ; 
th white labour they would cost too much to make large, and if small 
hot allow of root growths, and might damage the taproot. 
thi Peart clay fore or garden pots make coffee nurseries par excellence, as 
S "naturally be supposed ; but, although they maybe used many times, the 
“tis far beyond the means of the ordinary working farmer or coffee-grower. 
but wi 
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HINTS TO COFKEE-GROWERS. ‘< 
ditg Now that the. wet season is setting in, weeding with hoes becomes not only 
ae but inadvisable. Sickling must be resorted to, and care taken that the 
; 8 are cut down as close to the ground as poate, and no chance allowed 
hes of seeding. If they are allowed to seed, there will be endless trouble 
3 on; and if allowed to grow up into the coffec-trees, on the other hand, the 
4 . will suffer and look sickly and yellow after the rains are over. An eye must 
off fee to drains, and these cleaned out after a heavy fall, that they may take 
of wy © superfluous surface water with as. little of the soil as possible. Beware 
. ash also, A walk round the plantation after a night of rain will be amply 
eran _ Where the soil has been washed from the roots of a coffee-tree, 
da Sdy it at once by putting a shovelful of soil over the washed roots. Two 
ea of hot sun on such exposed roots will turn the tree yellow and sick, and 
Sibly cause the young crop to blacken and fall off. 
DeEscRIPTION OF PLATES. ~ 
Shoe LATE 1.—Coffee nursery ready for planting. Germinating bed in right-hand corner. 
Ing shading, : 
six me PATE 2.—A, Young plant cut out from bed, ready fo planing in field—‘‘ ball 0 earth”; 
in Rapes old. B. ‘‘Pencilled” or “Stump.” C. Stumped-plant, five weeks after stumping 
Sery. Ready for planting out. 
COFFEE AT CAIRNS. 
| ah D. Lewrs, coffee planter and manufacturer, of Cairns, obtained a very 
| trees actory return for his coffee crop last season. His plantation of bearing 
1 94 agovered 10 acres, and when the whole crop was harvested it totalled about 
i Pest Next season he expects a larger crop from these trees, and will also 
’ With ae his returns from the first bearing of young trees on another 10 acres. 
€ present rates prevailing in Brisbane—7d. per lb. for parchment, and 
lb. for cleaned coffee—such a return may be looked upon as very 
