SUMATRA ANB OTHER JAVA SORTS. 



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possible to ascribe to any one sort tbe virtue of being preemi- 

 tiently the best. Two years ago Preanger was regarded as tlie best 

 of tbe Java crop that comes into the port of New York, but this 

 year it ranks below several others in point of. merit. The follow- 

 ing list, with an estimate of the quantity of coffee raised in each 

 district on the Island of Java, gives some of the names of the 

 different varieties that are from time to time sold on the JSTew 

 York market, together with the estimated crop of each district 

 for 1879 : 



Name. ^™P ,''* 



piculs. 



1. Bantam 10,000 



2. KJrawang 1,430 



3. Preanger Eogent- 



Bchappen 320,000 



4. Cheribon 37,240 



5. Tagal 83,000 



6. Pekalongau 28,500 



7. Samarang 60,000 



8. Japara 2,610 



9. Soerbaya 7,500 



10. Passoeroean 300,000 



11. Probolingo 35,000 



In Holland, to which country the bulk of the Java crop is ex- 

 ported, the grades are recognized as follows : 



Total piculs.. 1,207,140 



West India preparation : 

 Extra green. 

 Pine green. 

 Good green. 

 Green. 



Java coffee : 

 Brown. 

 Light brown. 

 High yellow. 

 Yellow. 

 Yellowish. 



Triage : Ordinary broken with much black. 

 Ordinary broken with little black. , 



Java coffee : 



Light yellowish. 

 Fine blue. 

 Blue. 

 Bluish. 

 Passoeroean : 



Green. 



Good greenish. 



Greenish. 



Pale greenish. 



