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Different
Sorts
of
Coffee
—
Its
Enemies
—
Its
Composition
and
Treat-
ment
—
Methods
of
Making
—
Adulterations
—
Liberian
Coffee
Date
Coffee
and
other
Substitutes.
THKRK
are
about
twenty-two
species
of
coffee,
seven
of
them
belonging
to
Asia,
and
fifteen
to
Africa,
where
it
grows
in
districts
widely
apart,
as
in
Angola
and
on
the
shores
of
the
Victoria
Nyanza
;
yet,
although
it
is
so
widely
disseminated,
and
comes
from
so
many
different
places,
it
is
getting
com-
mercially
dearer
without
any
present
prospect
of
any
reduction.
Its
value
in
the
market
is
as
follows
—
the
first
being
the
highest,
and
the
last
the
lowest
in
price.
Mocha,
Jamaica,
Ceylon,
Honduras,
Mysore,
Costa
Rica,
Guatemala,
Brazil,
New
Grenada,
and
divers
East
Indian
growths
;
and
its
consumption
per
head
in
Europe,
ranks
thus
:
Holland,
Denmark,
Germany,
Belgium,
Norway,
Switzerland,
Sweden,
France,
Austria,
Greece,
Great
Britain,
Italy
and
Russia.
Unfortunately
the
coffee
plant
has
its
enemies,
in
the
shape
of
two
fungi
which
have
devastated
the
plantations
of
Ceylon
and
Mysore,
one
the
Hemileia
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