the ground; but I allow mine to attain greater height prior to lopping them, whereby they produce larger crops.  Nor do I allow my negroes to beat the trees, or force them to pluck a certain quantity a day, for I discovered that they picked the ripe and unripe beans indiscriminately—­frequently injuring the trees.  I only allow them to shake the tree, and pick up the beans that have fallen during the night.”

Coffee exports from the ports of Havana and Matanzas, in Cuba, for the years ending December in

Quintals.
1839             344,725
1840             402,135
1841             212,767
1842             314,191
1843             223,265
1844             186,349
1845              42,409
1846              65,045
1847             106,904
1848              31,674
1849              92,974
1852              42,510

Porto Rico exported 85,384 cwt. of coffee in 1839.

Africa.—­Coffee will require some four years to grow before it will give to the cultivator any income, but it should be known that after that time the tree, with little or no labor bestowed on it, will yield two crops a year.  The quality of coffee grown in the republic of Liberia, on the western coast of Africa, is pronounced by competent judges to be equal to any in the world.  In numerous instances, trees full of coffee, are seen at only three years old. 214 casks and bags of coffee were imported from the western coast of Africa in 1846.

Coffee, it has been proved, can be cultivated with great ease to any extent in the republic of Liberia, being indigenous to the soil, and found in great abundance.  It bears fruit from thirty to forty years, and yields 10 lbs. to the shrub yearly!  A single tree in the garden of Colonel Hicks, a colonist at Monrovia, is said to have yielded the enormous quantity of 16 lbs. at one gathering.  Judge Benson, in 1850, had brought 25 acres under cultivation, and many others had also devoted themselves to raising coffee.  It was estimated there were about 30,000 coffee trees planted in one of the counties, that of Grand Bassa, and the quality of the produce was stated to be equal to the best Java.

About the villages and settlements of the Sherbro river, and Sierra Leone, wild coffee-trees are very abundant.  In several parts of the interior, the natives make use of the shrub to fence their plantations.

Coffee has been successfully grown at St. Helena, of an excellent quality, and might be made an article of export.

Portugal sent to the Great Exhibition, in 1851, a very valuable series of coffees from many of her colonies; of ordinary description from St. Thomas; tolerably good from the Cape de Verd islands; bad from Timor; worse (but curious from the very small size of the berry) from Mozambique; good from Angola; and excellent from Madeira.

Aden, alias Mocha coffee, is, along with the other coffees of the Red Sea, sent first to Bombay by Arab ships, where it is “garbelled,” or picked, previously to its being exported to England.