The Rev. Henry Ellacomb furnishes a graphic account of the narrow escapes the coffee plant has had in its travels round the world. We have to premise, for the benefit of the younger portions of the human race, that, before the age of steam, it was not an easy matter to transport plants over months of ocean travel. A case on deck, covered by glass, to preserve from spray, and as much fresh water as could be spared from the scanty drinking supply, were as nothing to the personal care required to guard from numerous accidents. After all the trouble, and after it had been brought safe to port, the plant might be lost by the gardener having to guess at its habits or desires. Thus, the first coffee plant introduced, after much anxiety, into Europe, in 1703, died in the Royal Gardens at Versailles. Subsequently the Burgomaster of Amsterdam gave another to the gardens, and from this plant numerous young ones were raised by cuttings, one of which was placed by Antoine de Jussien, in charge of Declieux, a French naval officer, to take to Martinique. He got the plant safely to its destination, but only at a great sacrifice to himself. The ship's supply of water ran short, and only a small glassful daily, was the allowance to all on board.

Declieux shared his with the plant in his charge, though suffering severely by the want of it for himself. From this plant, so successfully, yet, in some sense, so painfully introduced to the Western Hemisphere, all the original plants, and perhaps, indeed, all the plants of the New World, sprung. A new species has been discovered in Africa, during the few past years, and called, from the American Colony, Li-berian coffee. But in these days of rapid traveling the seed can be carried in good condition for hundreds of miles, and through E. S. Morris, who has done so much to develop the material interests of the colony, the plant has been introduced into the New World, without a tithe of the anxiety that marked the introduction of its famous ancestor. - Independent.