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(broken) and ‘Elephant ” or overgrown; and an example shown. 
at the time of a visit made by the writer to the above mentioned 
establishment in 1897 turned out for 58 bags as follows: 14, 28, 
7, 9 and 2 cwt. ; 2 qrs., 1 ewt. 2 qrs., and 15 lb. respectively. The 
commercial forms are usually distinguished aecording to the 
country of origin, as ‘‘ Brazil,” ‘‘ Costa Rica," “ Mocha," ** East. 
India," ‘‘ Mysore," “ Java," ** Liberia," etc 
nutmegs taking the place of coffee, that is 390 coffee plants. 
to the acre in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th years pe 
(Gallagher); in the West Indies for C. liberica, 1-8 lb. of 
clean coffee per tree (Nicholls), and C. stenophylla appears to 
yield equally freely. 
It has been calculated that on an average 10 pikuls [about 
1350 1b.] of Liberian berry give one pikul [about 135 Ib.], and 
4 pikuls [about 540 Ib.] of Robusta berry give the same amount of 
market coffee, (Gallagher, Dept. of Agric. Fed. Malay St. Bull. 
No. 7, 1910, p. 1). 
The total imports of coffee into the United Kingdom during 
1910, were 936,778 cwt. value £2,903,014— 797,087 cwt. value 
£1,866,589 coming from Foreign Countries, chiefly Brazil 
(358,900 cwt. value £661,555) followed in order of importance for 
that year by Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, Nicaragua, 
Mexico, San Salvador, Portuguese Possessions in India, French 
Somaliland, Turkey (Asia), Java, Venezuela, Ecuador, Honduras 
(not British), Peru, Liberia, Chile, Panama, etc.—139,691 cwt. 
value £436,425 from British Possessions, chiefly British India 
— (118,484 cwt. value £369,999), B.W. Indies, Aden and Depen- 
dencies, Nyasaland Protectorate, British Guiana, E. Africa Pro- 
tectorate, and other British Possessions not defined (Trade of the 
United Kingdom, i. 1911, p. 208). The price per ewt. at the present 
time (March, 1913) is 72s. 6d. to 85s. for Costa Rica and 72s. to 
83s. 6d. for East India; 71s. 6d. to 83s. for Jamaica (Dec. 1912, 
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exports from the Western Province (198 ewt. value. £295), the 
