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oUm Conditor fuerat. Ihi tulit dein friufus, ex quthus fails 
^ no’Vde afjiduo Jlirpes prodeunt. It a quidem, ut rariflma Arhoris Spec- 
taculum in Europa unius Wit fen cuy£ deheatur ^ liheralitati, evrent^ * 
q^ue qui aliter hac de re puhlice commentati funt, ut fuis ad me datis 
Uteris ipfe amplifpmus ‘vir memonuit. The Authors M. Boerhaave 
here means, are probably the Relaters of that Story of the Dutch 
having ffollen away a whole Plant from Arabia , which we have 
already taken Notice of. 
Concerning this Coffee Plantation in Ja^a, Monf. La Roque 
fpeaks in thefe Words: ^ The wife and fagacioiis Dutch have plant- 
^ ed Coffee brought from Arabia, near Batavia, and by tranf* 
' planting, and other proper Methods, they have rais’d many 
‘ Trees there: The Succefs, neverthelefs, does not fully anfwer, 
‘ fince they continue ftill to fend Ships and ready Money into 
^ the Red Sea to purchafe Coffee from the Arabians. It is pre- 
^ tended, that the too great Heat of that Climate is the Reafon 
‘ why the Fruit feldom comes to due Perfection. And indeed 
^ Coffee Trees require a moderate Heat, much Shade, and a frefli 
^ free Air.’ This Author acquaints us further. That the EngliJIs 
likewife had begun to plant Coffee at Fort St. George, in the Eajl 
Indies', but with fo little Succefs, that he was inform’d they had 
now laid afide all Thoughts of that Defi^n. 
Whatever might be the State of the Dutch Coffee Plantations in 
fanja, when M. La Roque wrote, they are now in a very thriv- 
ing Condition 5 great Quantities of Coffee being every Year 
brought from thence into Europe. As for any Delign of plant- 
ing Coffee about St. George, I never could hear that that was car- 
ry ’d further than meer Curiofity. 
But now to return to the Amferdam Garden, the Univerfil 
Nurfery of Coffee Trees for all the Weflern Parts of Europe', I 
can neither find in what Year that Plant was brought thither, nor 
to what Place the firft Trees were lent from thence. We may 
however probably conjecture, that the neighbouring Gardens of 
the United Provinces were firft fupply’d 5 but I find no printed 
Account of any fent out of Holland, before thofe which Chrijloph. 
Volkamerus faw in M. Munnukhaufens Garden in Germany ; of 
which, as likewife of feme Seeds lent by Commelinus, the Famous 
Botamck Profeffor at Amferdam, to his Brother Joh. Georg. Volka- 
merus, he has given the following Account : Mfit Caje fruHus cera 
obduHos coyijunUiffimo jratri Dn. D, Joh. Georg. Fblkamero, ex Am-' 
ferodamenf horto Excell. Comelinn. Florae Hind deliciiim. Arboris 
autem Cafe ferentis ramum quern hie delineavimus fiimma liber alitas 
Excellentijfmi Domini L, B. a Munnichhaufen Magnce nunc Britan- 
z niie 
