The complete indigo-maker. Containing an accurate account of the indigo plant ; its description, culture, preparation, and manufacture. With oeconomical rules ... how to manage a plantation ... To which is added, a treatise on the culture of coffee / Translated from the French.

  • Monnereau, Élie
Date:
1769
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Credit: The complete indigo-maker. Containing an accurate account of the indigo plant ; its description, culture, preparation, and manufacture. With oeconomical rules ... how to manage a plantation ... To which is added, a treatise on the culture of coffee / Translated from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lia SUPPLEMEN T,V iiion., h to leave them on foot as they are, during their fieri]ky ; lop otF only fd much wood as ap¬ pears fuperfluous, keep them very clean, and you will find your aelvantage. Inftead of ftripping the flowers, &c. I have nothing to fay upon this head ; confult my memoirs, you will there find my thoughts upon the fubjedl ; if you do not find any thing upon it in your’s, you may re¬ cur to the original. You are right when you fay, old trees only do ' not produce the little Coflee.: this I experienced fince my firfl obfervations, and have feen fome that far ex¬ ceeded that of the young layers. This may be afcribed to the irregulariry of the feafons, rather than the foil, as this happens only in certain years. ^ o r Whether the water remains before or after the Cot- fee is planted, the plant does not receive lefs coolnefs from it, which I aflert is falutary, as this fame cool¬ nefs prevents its fading. With refpea to what I fay concerning planters, who plant at three or four feetdiflance,you conclude from thence that the foil is ungrateful ; to which you add that in this cafe you advife flopping the growth of the Coffee layers at the height of five feet : I am forry to tell you, that here you are greatly miflaken. I am certain that a layer of Coffee of this height (unlefs it be in a very deep ground) would not produce two years fucceffively. If you have a mind to confult the original thereupon, you will fee the very oppofite to your opinion fupported by very plaufible reafons. ^ Your manner of making holes in ftony grounds is very juft : I fhould want fenfe to condemn it *. I made this obfervation for thofe only, who indifcriminately plant in all kinds of foils. Next is an article, which, if I miftakenot, is founded more in prejudice than reafon ; you are aftonifted I ^ Ihould