BRAZILIAN COFFEES. ,71 



Peruvian Coffee. — Coffee grows luxuriantly on the 

 mountain slopes of Peru, the crops often being so heavy 

 as to necessitate artificial support for the branches, yet the 

 export from Mollendo, the shipping port, amounts only 

 to about 16,000 pounds per annum. It ranges in size 

 from medium to bold, varying in color from bluish to 

 yellow, roasting and drinking with the average of other 

 South American sorts. 



Paraguayan Coffee. — The total production of coffee 

 in Paraguay is exceedingly small in comparison with 

 what might be grown there under more favorable cir- 

 cumstances, little or no attention being given to its cul- 

 tivation, owing to lack of labor and capital, and notwith- 

 standing that it offers a fine field for its more extensive 

 growth. 



Brazil being the most extensive coffee-growing country 

 in South America and the largest producer of coffee in 

 point of quantity of any country in the world needs 

 more than a passing notice in this work. The gigantic 

 extent to which its production has been carried there, 

 the enormous, almost fabulous, amount of capital invested 

 in its cultivation, the multitude of people employed in its 

 preparation and handling, including the quantity of ship- 

 ping employed in its transportation invests it with great 

 importance. One must have been an eye-witness of the 

 immense bustle occasioned by the coffee trade of Rio 

 and Santos, must have observed the feverish excitement 

 and the unprecedented rapidity with which it is prepared, 

 transported, bagged, unbagged, mixed, rebagged, loaded, 

 marketed and shipped before he can form any conception 

 of the extent of the coffee industry in Brazil. 



In 17 1 8 the Dutch colony of Surinam began to introduce 

 and cultivate coffee in Guiana from plants received from 



