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IT is a curious fact, that three 

 plants connect together, three dif 

 ferent quarters of the globe, which 

 might otherwise have known com 

 paratively little of each other: 

 Arabia is linked to America and 

 Europe by her coffee ; China, by 

 her tea ; and tobacco has been for 

 ages one of the connecting com 

 mercial bonds between the two 

 hemispheres. 



Before referring to the various 

 methods of cultivation, it may not be inappropriate, briefly 

 to describe the plant itself. Coffee, a cinchonaceous genus, 



