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_ 2. > wit. 2 eb ih ae sare Y - Nee) ac ee 64 TNpusTRIES AND com slender top root is doubled tip, or sioriened fot much. | : The foliage will turn yellow, and the trees show every : sion of decay. The top roots should be placed perfectly straight in the ground, and the lateral. roots in a natural position. Then comes the time for weeding, and “a stitch in time saves nine”’ has its fullest meaning in a coffee estate. tl ho tee pile i bad ere ee eos On the Hawaiian Islands there are no weeds which ~ run to seed in less than thirty days, and if cafe is taken in going over the fields once a month and pulling and bury- ~ ing any weed that is found, the labor of weeding amounts to very little. If taken at the proper time one man can do the weeding of twenty-five acres and keep it clean. During the first year after the trees are set out all that is necessary to do is to keep the fields clean of weeds, and to replace any sickly trees, or those that do not look | strong, from the nursery. The second year the trees will © have acquired a good growth, and require handling or pruning. This is quite an art, and it needs a great deal of patience to break in laborers to do this work well — When steadily persisted in, however, the operation be- — comes more simple. | During all the second year the fields should be gone over at least once in every two months, and all sec- 4 ondaries, which are branches growing out from the first branches, should be rubbed off. This can be easily done by the fingers, if they are not over three inches long. | During the third year the tree blossoms. They vary from ten to fifteen clusters on one branch, and pee fifteen twenty: berries in a cluster. Some trees thrive in