. The great cultures of the isle of Java. 30 photos . Seed-plots for tlie riaiitation of Liberia cotlee. length are used, which, at a slight incline, are put intothe ground. The „Albizzia, on the contrary, is sown. Theseed is left in lukc-warm water for one night and thensown in seed-plots. The sheltering-trees are planted atthe same time or some months before the young coffee-trees, as the latter want light and a certain quantity ofsunshine during the first year. If there is too much shade,the young coffee-tree grows to too great a height. § 4. The plKHtitiij of the coffee-tree.
. The great cultures of the isle of Java. 30 photos . Seed-plots for tlie riaiitation of Liberia cotlee. length are used, which, at a slight incline, are put intothe ground. The „Albizzia, on the contrary, is sown. Theseed is left in lukc-warm water for one night and thensown in seed-plots. The sheltering-trees are planted atthe same time or some months before the young coffee-trees, as the latter want light and a certain quantity ofsunshine during the first year. If there is too much shade,the young coffee-tree grows to too great a height. § 4. The plKHtitiij of the coffee-tree. The coffee-tree is sown. The ripe berry, after havingbeen freed from its husk and washed with water mixedwith ash, to take off the sHmv substance surrounding thegrain, leaves a bean composed of two parts (the so-calledmasculine coffee-bean forms one whole) in a husk. Theseparts are sown separately In the beginning of the year,from January to April, according to the height in question(in high grounds earlier), the grains, so prepared, are planteda little under the surface, at a d
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