P. L. S.
8, Winchester-street, S.W.,
July, 1864.
CONTENTS.
| [COFFEE.] | |
|---|---|
| [SECTION I.] | |
| PAGE | |
| Botanical Description of the Coffee-Tree (with two illustrations) | [1] |
| [SECTION II.] | |
| History of its Introduction and Distribution | [6] |
| [SECTION III.] | |
| Production and Supply | [12] |
| [SECTION IV.] | |
| Commercial Varieties of Coffee | [15] |
| [SECTION V.] | |
| Chemical Analyses | [20] |
| [SECTION VI.] | |
| Coffee-Leaf Tea, &c. | [27] |
| [SECTION VII.] | |
| Adulterants (with an illustration) | [29] |
| [SECTION VIII.] | |
| Culture in the West Indies and America | [34] |
| [SECTION IX.] | |
| Culture in Arabia | [42] |
| [SECTION X.] | |
| Cultivation in Ceylon (with an illustration) | [45] |
| [SECTION XI.] | |
| Buildings, Planting, &c., in Ceylon (with four illustrations) | [52] |
| [SECTION XII.] | |
| Harvesting the Crop, and Preparation for Market (with an illustration) | [59] |
| [SECTION XIII.] | |
| Preparation for Market, continued | [63] |
| [SECTION XIV.] | |
| Cultivation in Southern India | [73] |
| [SECTION XV.] | |
| Bourbon, Java, and the East | [78] |
| [SECTION XVI.] | |
| Coffee as a Beverage | [81] |
| ———— | |
| [CHICORY]. | |
| [SECTION I.] | |
| Introduction into England. Continental Production and Consumption | [88] |
| [SECTION II.] | |
| Cultivation. Harvesting and Preparation for Market | [93] |
| [SECTION III.] | |
| Structure and Chemical Composition (with an illustration) | [98] |
COFFEE AND CHICORY.
COFFEE.
SECTION I.
BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION.
The coffee-tree—Coffea arabica, Linn.—is a plant belonging to the natural order Cinchonaceæ. It is a large erect bush, quite smooth in every part; leaves oblong lanceolate, acuminate, shining on the upper side, wavy, deep green above, paler below; stipules subulate, undivided. Peduncles axillary, short, clustered; corollas white, funnel-shaped, sweet-scented, with four or five oblong-spreading twisted lobes. Fruit a compressed drupe, furrowed along the side, crowned by the calyx. Seeds solitary, plano-convex, with a deep furrow along the flat side. Putamen like parchment.
The generic name given to the plant by Linnæus was taken, it is said, from Coffee, a province of Narea, in Africa where it grows in abundance.