The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-05-23
Bargains in EmbTOiderieS,
At
The Arcade-EGkN & co.
COFFEE, ITS HISTORY, PAlLOS0-
PLY, SUPPLY AND CON
SUMPTION.
COMMUNICATED.
Continued.

This is certainly not degenerate
age, nor are we, the soiourners and
natives of these delightful islands,
backward in the race of life, or the
duty we owe our adopted country.
We shirk not our responsibilities,
neither do we lack the enterprise
for which our race is famous.
There is another island, far away
however, whose capital resembles
in many respects our own charming
Honolulu. Colombo. Ceylon, is
delightful city, oriental in the first
degree. The architects of the bum
galows of Ceylon must have inspired
the minds of the designers of
houses here, where there are q
great many things in common. Their
situation, removed as they are some
what from the road, with path cir
cling In front, crescent-shaped, des-
cribes also the situation of the
Indian Bungalow. The shade trees
too, scattered throughout the town
breaks the rays of the sun and
makes promenading pleasant. Here
however, the comparison begins to
fail, for the climate of Ceylon is too
oppressive, sultry and enervating for
walking exercise. But they are
far more advanced in their agricul-
tural industries. Their position, in
this respect, is owing in q large
measure to the greater age of the
colony-its educated planting com
munity, well-organized and system
atised.
In the course of time the neglect
ed industries of these islands are
sure to develop. The raw material
here is richer in higher degree than
there. Our virgin soils. exceed in
fertility anythiug which the Garden
of the East can boast of; therefore,
with proper instruction, and Sc
lection of such products as will find
genial home, we may hope in the
| future to bear better comparison
with the brightest gem in the Brit
ish Crown"
Coffee is king, for no shrub is so
extensively cultivated. Authentic
and reliable records have been
handed down to us of the earliest
efforts to cultivate this tree in the
East Indies.
A single plant of coffee grown in
q garden in Batavia, about A. D..
1890, was sent by the Governor
General to Holland, as a present to
the Governor of the Dutch East In
dia Company. 1t was planted in
the Botanical Gardens at Amster-
dam, where it fourished and bore
fruit, and the fruit produced young
plants. Some of the latter were
sent to the Colony of Surinam where
coffee began to be cultivated as an
article of trade, A. d. 1918, and
from thence the first coffee plants
were taken to the English and French
West India Islands. From Java
the cultivation of coffee has been
extended to Sumatra, Celebes, Bali
and several of the Philippine Isl
ands. About the same time as the
Dutch carried the tree or it's seeds
to Batavia, they began its cultiva,
ton in Ceylon.
A Dutch clergyman, named Wis
scher. appears to have been the frs
European who drew attention to the
cultivation of coffee in India. A
all events his is the earliest notice
extant on the subject. In his let
fap oil
he remarks that the coffee shrub i
planted in the gardens for pleasur
and yields plenty of fruit, which at
tains to a proper degree of ripeness
"An entirely new plantation" h
adds, ''has been laid out in Ceylon.
Coffee planting soon became ia
nous in the year 1871, 1865 acre
of land were sold and quickly plant
ed up. She soon outstripped he
sister colonies, the West Indies, an,
ultimately became the third larges
coffee producing country in tn,
world. From this position she fel
in 1882 through the dire effects O
"hemeleia vastatrix," coffee Leaf
disease.
Few people are aware, excep
planters, what ridiculous nonsense
it is to talk of real Mocha coffee, il
contra distinction to Java or an,
other. "The Official Report OF
Trade of India" for 1928 has til,
following:
"Of Ceylon coffee ,44Scwts wer,
re-exported last year to Arabia. Ii
addition to this quantity 10, 1928 cwt
of India coffee were exported t,
Arabia, making total quantity o
1926 cwts of India and Ceylol
coffee shipped to Arabia, supposed
to be the country, par excellence, o
coffee. In the year previous til
: quantity of both kinds of coffe
thus exported was not less tina
1889 cwts. 1t would be interest
ing to know how many people i
Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Turkey an
elsewhere, probably Europe toe
consume our Indian and Ceylon col
fee under the pleasing deluson this
they are drinking, real Mocha of til
finest quality"
Thousands of hundredweights {
coffee are transhipped at Alden an