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samples from Sourabaya ; both arc contributed by the " Singapore 

 Committee " of the Honourable East India Company, The Java cof- 

 fee is only prized in the market for its delicacy of flavour, as in point 

 of strength it falls short of the West Indian. 



The samples of Aden coffee contributed by the Honourable East 

 India Company are not superior, and more resemble the Berbera 

 (Abyssinian) plant, usually called long- berried Mocha, than the genuine 

 Mocha. The specimens are dirty, and not sufficiently garbelled 

 (picked). Aden, alias Mocha coffee, is, along with the other coffees 

 of the Red Sea, sent first to Bombay, by Arab ships, where it is " gar- 

 belled," previously to its being exported to England. The bean is 

 always broad and small, and the climate of India is supposed to im- 

 prove its flavour. 



Ceylon. — The great extent and importance of the cultivation of 

 coffee in this island renders this department of the Jury's labours par- 

 ticularly interesting. The samples of both lowland and upland crops 

 are, in general, excellent, and much useful instruction is conveyed by 

 models of the drying-houses, sheds, and implements used in the ma- 

 nufacture of the berry ; together with the latter, itself, in the different 

 stages of the process of cleaning and drying, removing the pulp and 

 husk, of which a portion, it will be seen, always adheres to the slit, 

 and is ground in the mill, except when removed by Snowden's patent 

 process, already alluded to. 



Demerara^ once the great coffee-country, now cultivates very little 

 indeed. Many samples, of various growths, are sent from the few 

 remaining estates. None are of much merit ; the best (that from the 

 estate " Klein Pouderoyen ") is good. Pearl-berry coffee is also ex- 

 hibited, and poor samples of cocoa. 



Trinidad exhibits very poor coffee ; apparently degenerated from 

 plants originally of Mocha; and, from its want of aroma, is probably 

 badly cured or damaged. The cocoa from the same island is truly 

 magnificent, and such as is never seen in our market. Mr. Purdie, 

 of Her Majesty's Botanic Garden, Trinidad, to whom the public are 

 mainly indebted for the whole Trinidad collection, sends cocoa as 

 prepared for both the English and Spanish. With regard to the 

 Spanish, such has never been seen in England ; every bean is very 

 large, round, ripe, clean, and of a fine bright-red colour. The Eng- 

 lish is good of its kind, but is, literally, the refuse of the Spanish ; 

 the beans being lean, flat, half-ripe, flinty, and often bitter. A Prize 

 Medal is awarded to the Spanish samples. 



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