Native manurial practises should be studied. Application of
various soils as top dressing by native cultivators. The best and
most economical way of manuring coffee has yet to be discovered.

Manurial experiments need not be costly.

CHAPTER XIII.--NURSERIES, TOPPING, HANDLING, PRUNING, ETC.

The selection of seed.

Irrigated coffee near Bangalore. Mr. Meenakshia's gardens. The
selection of a site for a nursery.

The best time for putting down the seed.

Plants should be grown in baskets. The pits for vacancy plants.

Topping. The best heights for.

The time when trees should be topped.

Handling and the removal of suckers. Its importance as regards
rot and leaf disease.

Pruning.

Management of pruning, with reference to rot and leaf disease.

The removal of moss and rubbing down the trees. The cultivation
of the soil.

Difficulties connected with the proper cultivation of the soil.

The best tools for digging. Renovation pits.

Renovation pits valuable as water-holes. Their value in
connection with water conservation.

CHAPTER XIV.--THE DISEASES OF COFFEE.

Leaf disease, or attacks of _Hemeleia Vastatrix_.

Mr. Marshall Ward's report on leaf disease in Ceylon. Leaf
disease probably always existed in Mysore. Said to have caused
much loss on some estates.

Losses of leaves from other causes commonly attributed to leaf
disease. No reason to fear it if land is well cultivated,
manured, and shaded. Evidence that shade can control leaf
disease.

Bad kinds of shade trees cannot control, but increase leaf
disease.

Conditions under which leaf disease is liable to occur in the
cases of good soil under good shade trees.

The importance of manure and cultivation with reference to leaf
disease. Mr. Graham Anderson's, Mr. Marshall Ward's and Mr.
Brooke Mockett's opinions. The Coorg plant not so liable to be
attacked as the Chick plant.

The Borer insect.

Borer is worst under bad kinds of shade trees, but can be
controlled by good caste trees.

Conditions favorable to attacks of the Borer.

Reasons for thinking that the usual practice of destroying all
bored trees is of little use.

The Borer can only be suppressed by adequate shade. Rot, or
_pellicularia koleroga_. Aggravated by want of free circulation
of air.

Measures for lessening rot. Importance of meeting monsoon with
mature leaves on the coffee