248 COFFEE : ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



" The Coffee exported from Singapore is raised in the small 

 islands of Netherlands India, and the Philippine Islands. 

 It does not possess the fine flavour and intrinsic value of 

 Padang and Batavia Java, and some years it is of decidedly 

 inferior quality. All Java Coffee received here, and which 

 was produced free from the restrictions imposed by the 

 Government, is known as ' Free Coffee.' " Coffee, from Planta- 

 tion to Cup, F. B. THUR^ER. 



THE PHILIPPINES 



Are said to be peculiarly adapted to the raising of 

 Coffee, and we can well believe it. The berry 

 produced is equal if not superior in aroma and 

 flavour to that of Java, under which name it often 

 finds its way with much other island-grown Coffee . 

 to Singapore (as above stated), and so to Europe 

 or the United States. 



Most of the small annual crop, which does not 

 exceed 3,300 tons per annum, is native grown, but 

 there are a few lonely European planters dotted 

 about the Archipelago. 



AUSTRALIA. 



Here, too, they have tried Coffee culture, but we 

 cannot say we think it is likely to be profitable 

 when grown on a large scale, in spite of Mr. Pink. 

 From Queensland Mr. Pink writes : 



" I think there is no advantage in growing Coffea Liberica 

 here at present, as the leaf disease is unknown, and Coffea 

 Arabica does well, producing at the rate of 6 cwt. per acre. 

 There are now in this colony a number of Coffee planters 



