OTHER VARIETIES. I4I 



port by the planter and delivered in bulk, the purchaser 

 furnishing his own bags and marks, the coffees being oi 

 such high repute and quality they sell high, there being 

 great competition to obtain them. Many of these plan- 

 tations were in existence prior to the introduction of the 

 government monopoly system, or are situated on the 

 estates of the native princes, who have been permitted 

 to retain some portion of their sovereign privileges. 



Liberian-Java Is the product of a transplant oi 

 the Liberian species introduced into the island about ten 

 yearo ago, where it was found to prosper well and vigor- 

 ously ; a great demand springing up for its seed, the 

 cultivation increasing and yielding a bean much larger 

 than that produced by the parent plant, full and well 

 developed, yellow to brown in color, concave in form 

 and closely resembling "Padang" in liquor and flavor. 



W. I. P. Or " West India Prepared " Java is so termed 

 from being pulped and prepared by the "Washed" or 

 West India process, being also known to trade as *' Blue- 

 bean Java." The raw bean is bold, regular and bluish- 

 green in color, hard and solid in substance, heavy, rich 

 and flavory in liquor. Some authorities, how^ever, con- 

 tend that this new process is detrimental to the coffee, 

 claiming that by the old or " dry-hulled " method the 

 bean retained all the properties of the coffee to a much 

 greater degree, whereas by the new process, considerable 

 of the active principle (caffeine) is carried off in the 

 washing. 



Loeke or "Tiger-cat Java*' Is a variety of Java 

 coffee highly prized for the intrinsic merits imparted to it 

 by a peculiar process. It is composed simply of the 

 undigested beans which have passed through the intes- 

 tinal canal of the " Loeke," a small species of tiger found 



