OTHER VARIETIES. l8l 



Prime — Is very clean and regular in size and color, 

 but deficient in the rich, pleasing appearance of the 

 former. 



Good — Is acknowledged as the average or " Standard " 

 grade, and ranges from clean to strictly clean, and is 

 uniform in bean and color. 



Fair — Is only moderately clean, containing some 

 black or broken beans and other slight imperfections. 



Ordinary — Is irregular in size and color, and un- 

 sightly in appearance, containing much black beans and 

 other extraneous matter. 



Commoil — Is the poorest grade, and is generally full 

 of black and broken beans, stems, hulls and chaff, having 

 no definite color, and very unsightly in general appear- 

 ance. On the Coffee Exchanges they are graded numeri- 

 cally from No. i to No. lo, No. 7, or "Low ordinary," 

 being adopted as the " Standard grade," upon which all 

 transactions are based. In point of quantity Brazil heads 

 the list of coffee-producing countries, its annual product 

 ranging from 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 bags of 130 pounds 

 each, 75 per cent, of which is exported to the United 

 States, the remainder going chiefly to Europe, 



Pea-berry Coffees, — Also known to trade as " Male- 

 berry " and " Pearl-bean," are concave-convex in form 

 and may belong to any variety, from Rio to Java. Their 

 peculiar shape being accounted for as follows : Each 

 teifcct coffee berry should contain two oval seeds or bcatts 

 placed facing each other in the fruit or pod, but it most 

 frequently occurs that only one seed will form in it, the 

 other becoming abortive. The one forming receiving all 



