Photograph by N. H. Darton 



PICKING ORANGES IN CALIFORNIA 



Because of the great freeze of two decades ago and the competition of the spirited Western 

 growers, Florida has been forced to yield first place in the orange industry to California 



Pittsburgh. Three-fourths of this is 

 grown in Brazil, a country that has be- 

 come rich from its coffee industry alone. 

 Europe and North America bear approxi- 

 mately the same relation to the consump- 

 tion of coffee that Brazil does to its pro- 

 duction, these two continents using nearly 

 four-fifths of all the coffee the world 

 produces. 



Holland is the greatest coffee-drinking 

 nation on the globe. It uses 15^ pounds 

 per capita annually, while we use 93/2 

 pounds, Germany 5}^ pounds, Austria- 

 Hungary 2 2 / 5 pounds, and the United 

 Kingdom ^ of a pound. On the other 

 hand, we use less than one pound of tea 

 per capita, where the United Kingdom 

 uses nearly seven pounds. Canada is 

 about two-thirds English and one-third 



American in its use of coffee and tea ; 

 it shows a decided preference for the 

 tea, but drinks less of it than the mother 

 country, making up the difference with 

 coffee. The Germans and the Austro- 

 Hungarians use only a negligible quantity 

 of tea. 



The coffee plant is a shrub which, 

 under cultivation, grows from 4 to 6 feet 

 high. In its wild state it grows three or 

 four times as high as in its cultivated 

 state. The dwarfing of the plant in- 

 creases the crop and facilitates picking. 

 The leaves are of a fresh green color ; 

 the flowers are white and have an odor 

 strongly resembling jasmine. 



The green coffee berry of commerce is 

 nothing more nor less than the seeds of 

 the coffee "cherry." These "cherries" 



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