pronounce its value, from one 



per cwt. downwards, according to the two other qualities, 



colour and flavour. 



The value of the coffees usually imported into this country 

 stands in the following order : Mocha, fine Ceylon Planta- 

 tion, Jamaica, Costa Eica, Java, Tellicherry, and St. 

 Domingo. 



Portugal produces coffee in several of her colonies. 

 Ordinary description, yellowish berry, in St. Thomas; 

 tolerably good in the Cape de Yerdes ; bad, yellow, in Timor ; 

 worse (but curious from the very small size of the berry), 

 growing wild, in Mozambique ; good in Angola ; and of ex- 

 cellent quality in Madeira and Porto Santo, but the produc- 

 tion is limited. 



Much of the coffee which finds its way into England as 

 genuine Mocha is, in reality, Malabar coffee, sent to ports of 

 the Persian G-ulf from Bourbon, and when thus naturalised, 

 finding its way to Europe. But the coffee of India even now 

 competes successfully with that of Arabia, in Bussorah, and 

 other local markets, which the latter had for centuries com- 

 manded as its own. 



It is curious to watch the progress of English enterprise. 

 The energetic and ubiquitous Anglo-Saxons hold India, and 

 here we see coffee from India triumphing over the famous 

 berry of Arabia. The cultivation of tea also is rapidly 

 spreading over 30,000 square miles of the Sub-Himalayan 

 ranges; and who knows but that Indian teas may yet 

 compete with those of the flowery land in the markets of 

 Shanghae ? 



Already the Assam teas are held in high estimation by 

 good judges of tea in this country, whilst they fetch a high 

 price in India for local consumption. 



The colour of the berry is by no means a decisive criterion 

 of excellence of quality ; in some parts the bluish berry is 



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