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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, 





