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.