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The Java and East Indian, next in quality, are larger, 

 and' of a paler yellow. The Ceylon berries are of irregular 

 sizes, ill-shaped, and of a spotted dirty cream-colour. The 

 terms " Plantation" and " Native" coffees, as applied to 

 Ceylon berries, are distinctions arising from one being the 

 cultivated coffee of the estates of the planters, which are 

 better attended to and prepared for market, while the other 

 is that grown in a wild or careless manner by the natives 

 about their dwellings, and more rudely prepared. Java 

 coffee is chiefly prized in the market for its delicacy of flavour, 

 but in point of strength it falls short of the West Indian. 



Of Bourbon coffee there are in commerce two qualities, 

 fine and ordinary. The first is in small seeds, well selected 

 for size, of a variable colour, yellow or green, with little 

 pellicle, the furrow slightly indented, and it has a sweet 

 odour. The second is badly assorted as regards form and 

 colour, and its odour less agreeable. 



The Jamaica coffee-berry is medium-sized, of a greenish 

 blue colour, rather oblong, and smooth to the touch. It has 

 a strong, agreeable smell, and excellent flavour, and when 

 carefully picked and sorted, fetches about the highest price 

 Xf any kind. 



^ Porto Bico is a middle-sized coffee, of a pure and agreeable 

 flavour ; the colour of the better sorts is a bluish green ; and 

 of the common, yellow. 



The West Indian and Brazilian coffees have a bluish or 

 greenish-grey tint. This grey-green shade of the Western 

 coffees is entirely deficient in those of Asia. The value of 

 the berry in our wholesale markets is not, therefore, a ficti- 

 tious quality, as some imagine, but is real, and depends first 

 upon the texture and form of the berry or seed, secondly on 

 the colour, and thirdly the flavour. The texture of the berry 

 and form, termed " style" by the coffee brokers, is so well 

 defined and palpable to the initiated, that at one view they 



