1892 Drinks of the world

— Its Composition and Treat-

— Its Enemies

Different Sorts of Coffee

— Methods of Making

— Adulterations

— Liberian Coffee

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Date Coffee and other Substitutes. THKRK are about twenty-two species of coffee, seven of them belonging to Asia, and fifteen to Africa, where it grows in districts widely apart, as in Angola and on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza ; yet, although it is so widely disseminated, and comes from so many different places, it is getting com- mercially dearer without any present prospect of any reduction. Its value in the market is as follows — the first being the highest, and the last the lowest in price. Mocha, Jamaica, Ceylon, Honduras, Mysore, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Brazil, New Grenada, and divers East Indian growths ; and its consumption per head in Europe, ranks thus : Holland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Austria, Greece, Great Britain, Italy and Russia. Unfortunately the coffee plant has its enemies, in the shape of two fungi which have devastated the plantations of Ceylon and Mysore, one the Hemileia

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