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and elsewhere. Models of the fruit of the 

 chocolate plant, as well as of the plant 

 itself, are shown, together with samples of 

 the different kinds of chocolate and cocoa 

 that are made from it. The pods containing 

 the beans are preserved in jars ; and a note 

 states the fact that the flowers and fruit 

 grow from the old wood, not from the 

 young twigs. All kinds of tea and coffee 

 are shown with the glass models of the 

 plants. One of the most remarkable of 

 these exhibits is labelled, " Roasted Java 

 coffee from Brazil ; " while another reads, 

 " Coffee beans made from wheat flour." 



It is apparent that the collection appeals 

 with unexpected variety to many tastes, 

 to the desire for novelty as well as to that 

 for mere sight-seeing; to the delight in 

 beauty not less than to the devotion to 

 science; to the love for the poetical at 

 least as much as to the leaning toward 

 the practical. Children are open-voiced in 

 their pleasure as they examine the exquisite 

 sprays ; and older visitors derive pleasure 

 not only from the outspoken delight of the 

 young people, but from the reminiscences 

 of their own childhood that come back to 

 them as they catch sight of the star-grass 

 and sweet fern, and liverwort and harebells, 

 and violets and cowslips and buttercups that 

 they used to find in the fields, and the Star 



