. Coffee; its history and also its remarkable growth in the world of commerce. Coffee. [from old catalog]. Insist on having the T & T brand of Coffee. 15. CHAPTER II. HOW AND WHERE IT GROWS. iOFFEE flourishes all over the tropical zone. It is indigenous to Africa, but as it grows with equal luxuriance in Arabia, Java, Central America and Brazil, it can hardly be said that any one side of the globe is especially adapted to its growth. The plantjsjQne Qf the most beautiful in nature, rivaling the purely ornamental growths. It grows in the form of a rather low and slender tree, when in the wi

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. Coffee; its history and also its remarkable growth in the world of commerce. Coffee. [from old catalog]. Insist on having the T & T brand of Coffee. 15. CHAPTER II. HOW AND WHERE IT GROWS. iOFFEE flourishes all over the tropical zone. It is indigenous to Africa, but as it grows with equal luxuriance in Arabia, Java, Central America and Brazil, it can hardly be said that any one side of the globe is especially adapted to its growth. The plantjsjQne Qf the most beautiful in nature, rivaling the purely ornamental growths. It grows in the form of a rather low and slender tree, when in the wild state, but under cultivation it is kept down to a height of six feet on an average, for greater convenience in picking. The leaves are of a dark green, resembling the common laurel somewhat, and the flowers, much like those of the white jessamine, lie close to the stem, in the angles of the leaf-stalks. These flowers emit the most entrancing perfume. The odor excels even that of the orange blossom, and is most de- liriously aromatic, this slight impression of pungency quite taking away the heaviness that accompanies the odor of the orange or the jessamine. The flowers are short-lived, some- times fading away in as short a space of time as six hours; but sometimes, while the first crop of berries is maturing, a second growth of blossoms appears, fully as fragrant as the first. This is especially the case with the Arabian coffee. The fruit of the coffee tree is not unlike a cherry, though, as a rule, somewhat smaller. There is a variety of coffee, however, grown in Costa Rica, the fruit of which is as large as a small plum. The Liberian coffee, too, has a large berry. Inside the bright red skin of the fruit, there is a yellow fluid surrounding the bean, or the seeds. These seeds, which are the coffee as we see it, are firmly glued together, one pair to each berry, and surrounded by a peculiar membrane. The berries are known to be ripe when they have assumed a dark red, almost