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Title: The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: McGovern, John. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Chicago, Union pub. house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hipped generally to theworld, and it is said that none of the picked berries of this trueMokha get out of Moslem countries. Mokha enjoyed the Coffeetrade of the world for two hundred years. When coffee-housesreached Constantinople, about 1550, they excited religious oppo-sition, as was the case also when they extended into Christian COFFEE, TEA, ETC 183 capitals. The first London coffee-house was opened by aGreek, Pasqua Rossie, in 1650, so that it took a hundred yearsto get from the Golden Horn to the Thames. Twenty-five yearslater Charles II, issued a royal edict against public coffee-houses,as breeding-places of sedition. It may thus be deduced that thePilgrim Fathers at Plymouth, Mass., and the Cavaliers at Balti-more knew nothing of Coffee. This was true as well of Tea andCocoa, for all three came to Europe nearly together. Describe the culture of Coffee. Sloping hillsides above the sea are the best places for coffeeorchards. The seeds—that is, Coffee—are first sown in a nur-
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Flg.6& THE COFFEE PLANT and its iwk SCry, and when the plants arc a foot high they are set out-doors in rows about six feet apart. If left untrimmed, the shrub 184 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY would grow to a height of twenty feet, but it is trimmed toeight feet, the branches being trained out laterally. Theorchard, when in full bloom, is white and fragrant, and livesnearly fifty years. Doubtless the fame of the Arabian coast asa land of fragrance arose from the presence on its hills of theMokha plantations. What follows the white flower ? A bright red berry, resembling a cherry, with a pulpy bodyand two pits in a pod or cyst. These berries group themselvesclose to the stalk. These pits are the Coffee. The bushes beargood berries the third year. These are picked and fed into amachine, which separates the pits. The wet pits are spread onframes to dry, and the cyst or pod, which is very light, is beatenor winnowed off. Children sort the pits or bean as the Coffee iscalled, and it is then

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