being almost always, or at least very frequently, single seeded, 

 and the seed cylindrical and plump. 



The Jamaica coffee-tree has a larger and more pliable leaf, 

 longer and more drooping brandies, and berries almost always 

 containing two seeds. (The Ethiopian.) 



The great difference now existing between the two kinds, 

 may possibly have originated in the change of soil, climate, 

 and season, operating through a series of years ; but this 

 difference is so decided, and so strongly marked, that thev 

 veriest tyro can in a moment pronounce of either. 



The East India or Bengal coffee-tree differs much from 

 all others, but is in every respect a veritable coffee. 



The leaf is smaller, and lighter green, than the fore- 

 going variety ; its berry is infinitely smaller, and when 

 ripening, turns black instead of blood-red. Coffee made 

 from it is of excellent flavour, and much liked. 



"Within the tropics, coffee thrives best at an elevation of 

 1200 to 3000 feet, and rarely grows above 6000 feet. It 

 may be cultivated as far as 36 north latitude, where the 

 mean temperature is about 70. 



In the western hemisphere coffee is grown in many of the 

 "West India Islands, in Central America, the northern Re- 

 publics of South America, Berbice, Cayenne, and Brazil. 

 In Africa it is grown in Liberia and other parts of Western 

 Africa, at St. Helena, in Egypt, and Mozambique, and a 

 little in Natal. Passing eastward we find it in Arabia, one 

 of the oldest seats of culture, the southern peninsula of 

 India, Ceylon, Bourbon, Java, Celebes, and other parts 

 of the Eastern Archipelago, Siam, and some of the Pacific 

 Islands. 



Coffee-plants are able to bear an amount of cold which is 

 little known or thought of. The high and cold regions of 

 Jamaica near St. Catherine's Peak, and the foo't of the Great 

 Blue Mountain Peak, both situated at some 6000 feet above 



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