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ance  who  are  addicted  to  this  weakness  that  there  are  preparations 
which  can  be  made  by  the  authority  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  and 
National  Formulary  containing  as  much  of  the  remedial  agents  in 
an  ounce  as  some  of  their  favored  specialties  contain  in  a  pint. 
THE  CULTIVATION  OF  COFFEE  IN  JAMAICA.1 
By  C.  G.  Lloyd. 
The  island  of  Jamaica  exports  each  year  between  eight  and  nine 
hundred  thousand  pounds  of  coffee,  valued  last  year  at  a  million 
three  hundred  and  sixty  thousand  dollars,  and  the  product  was  las! 
year  15-7  per  cent,  of  the  total  exports  from  the  island.  In  former 
years  the  great  bulk  of  this  coffee  went  to  England  ;  thus  only  ten 
years  ago,  England  got  73  per  cent.,  while  the  United  States  only 
received  13  per  cent. ;  but  beginning  with  1884  the  States  have  taken 
a  large  proportion  of  the  product,  and  last  year  received  45  per  cent., 
the  year  before  57  per  cent.  Iam  very  sorry  to  have  to  report, 
however,  that  the  United  States  only  gets  the  poorer  grades,  the 
English  paying  a  better  price  for  the  choice  grades.  The  best  coffee 
of  the  island  is  raised  on  the  Blue  Mountains,  in  the  parishes  of  St. 
Andrew  and  St.  Thomas,  the  eastern  end  of  the  island,  which  coffee 
almost  entirely  goes  to  England.  I  am  informed  by  the  planters  of 
Manchester  parish,  who  sort  their  coffee,  that  their  best  grades, 
also,  go  to  England. 
Jamaica  (and  also  Hayti)  coffee  is  of  an  average  good  quality,  a 
little  stronger  than  Java  or  Mocha,  but  not  so  strong  and  rank  as 
the  Rio.  A  large  New  York  importer  of  West  Indies  products 
told  me  that  a  certain  coffee  firm,  whose  name  is  a  synonym  for 
wealth,  had  made  a  fortune  in  the  last  half  dozen  years,  selling 
roasted  Jamaica  and  Hayti  coffee  as  "choice  Java."  I  presume 
every  one  who  knows  nothing  of  the  subject,  has  an  idea  how  coffee 
grows,  even  if  it  is  erroneous.  We  naturally  imagine  that  it  grows 
on  trees  like  cherries,  and  I  had  expected  to  see  a  coffee  plantation 
look  like  a  cherry  orchard.2    When  I  left  Kingston  by  rail  for  the 
1  Read  before  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Profile  House, 
N.  H.,  July  16. 
-  My  impressions  had  been  formed  from  the  picture  plate  10,  of  the  recent 
French  work,  "  Plantes  Medicinales,"  of  Dujardin-Beaumetz  and  Egasse.  This 
plate  is  so  grossly  inaccurate,  not  only  in  regard  to  the  character  and  apparent 
