POLYNESIAN COFFEES. 



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Singapore Javas. What are known to commerce 

 as " Singapore Java Coffees " are not produced on that 

 island, which, although lying directly in the coffee zone, 

 produces little or no coffee, except small quantities of the 

 Liberian species, which has recently been introduced there. 

 90 per cent, of the coffee shipped from Singapore is 

 chiefly composed of the products of Bali, Timour, the 

 Mollucas and smaller Sunda islands, its position making 

 it the only entrepot for the commerce of the entire archi- 

 pelago. The coffees are usually small in size, reddish 

 in color, irregular in grade and inferior in quality, being 

 generally produced from wild or carelessly cultivated 

 plants, and also possessing a peculiar spicy or " peppery " 

 flavor, said to be contracted from being imported with 

 cargoes of pepper, but more probably from being grown 

 in the vicinity of pepper plantations in the Spice islands. 

 Formerly these coffees were marketed under their true 

 titles, but as their character became known they were 

 palmed off as Padang and other district Javas, to the 

 detriment of the latter. 



The systematic cultivation of the Liberian species of 

 coffee was commenced about ten years ago in Siam, 

 Malacca and many of the smaller islands of Malaysia, 

 where it was found to prosper so well at tirst that the 

 the demand for Liberian seed became very great. But 

 after a fair trial it does not seem to have been a great 

 success, what little is produced in these new districts 

 being generally classed as "J^hore Liberian " coffee. 



Embrace Phillipine, Borneo, Guinea, Fijian, Samoan, 

 Hawaiian, Australian, New Zealand, and other islands 

 in the South Pacific Ocean. 



