in commerce is the seed which grows in 

 the pod or fruit of the coffee plant, like the pea 

 or the bean. Geographically, it is divided into 

 African, Asian, American and Polynesian coffees, and, 

 topographically, into " Mountain," or upland, and " Plain- 

 grown," or lowland Coffees, while commercially they are 

 generally classified as " Mild " and " Strong," the former 

 comprising in trade the product of all countries, with the 

 exception of Brazil. Grown in so many different and 

 widely separated countries, provinces, districts and situ- 

 ations, it is but natural that the different products should 

 vary materially in size, style, color, form, flavor and 

 character, and which also accounts for the almost 

 innumerable commercial divisions and sub-divisions of 

 names, grades and values. 



Africa is the original home of coffee, it being indigenous 

 to almost the entire Continent; but while it is to be 

 found gowing in a wild state almost all over the entire of 

 tropical Africa, more particularly between the fifth and 

 fifteenth parallels, its cultivation for commercial purposes 

 on the " Dark Continent " is very light and partial & the 



