The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-07-27

staIlpS. but only one copy to one family.
| rarely attaining height of twenty feet,
with large oblong leaves and flowers of a
| dull green tint which emit disagreeabls
| odor. The cultivation of cinnamon is
| peculiar the plants being managed on the
coppice SYSTEM the bark taken from
shoots under two years growth. Only
| four or five shoots are allowed to grow up
! from each ''stool,' and these to an aver
age length of ten feet. The shoots are cut
| down twice year, and the bark detach-
ed in lengths of about foot, After lying
in bundles for d few days, each separate
piece is scraped by hand, to remove the
inner and outer layers, reducing the re-
manning portion to the thinness of cob
web. The pieces are made up into COM
posite quilts by placing the smaller pieces
inside the larger ones. Thus the cinna-
mon sticks are formed into firm rods,
three or four feet long, and after drying
| in the sun are ready for expectation. Its
peculiar sweet, warm flavor is due to the
aromatic oil contained in the bark in very
! large proportion. The coarser pieces are
utilized for the extraction of essential
| oil-in Ceylon by roughly powdering the
bark and macerating it few days in sea
"peOi' "ron ''N Ivy was i"iNhiS ul9eii.
ltu' a emo can 90 mat part OF Ii, ana
lhe lrlniaau eApefmehIor mas ALREADY
produced from his little patch of cinna-
mon bushes some golden yellow oil which
nobody could distinguish from the best
product of Ceylon. 1t is impossible to
caculate how many thousands of pounds
/ OF cinnamon are used every year, not only
as Il condiment and tfavOring in coo king
but in the preparation of chocolate, con
Iectlonary ana liquors. III cordlals and
medicines. nave an eAceIleht SCRIPT
ufaI authority 1ol It's use, since III EXODUS
me Lofu eohAludhdeQ Moses TO employ
| ootn CINNAMON ana eaSSla' FROM re-
| lloleAl dHliPul'S tHe ftIolndtl0 pdrk was
AnoWh' ana 80 nlShiy lnouSnt Oh oF lle
ahcteHtS lu"t " ChS plI WAS Colsl0eIeu ii
III Silt loI king. ooloh anu / dto ne
qu5H'is hien'ioneo ~ 50 40 I IL,
ana oNAel elasslcdI "IlleIS' Inc Afdo
'laueIS VINO ll.SI ueal III precious spices,
strrouAueo tne history anu production OF
cinnamon with special tales OF mystery,
the last 1adlng remnant OF Whlch Will
specify vanish "heh the business lallS in
TO pfosalc ankee hahds.
Pepper, the commonest of ''the four
seasons includes dozen pungent spices
black, white, red, long, Jamaica, Ash
antee. etc. derived from several entire
ly different. orders of plants. The black
pepper constantly used in every house
hold, is the fruit of a perennial shrub,
which is indigenous to the West Indies
as we'll as the Malay Peninsula and the
islands of the Indian Ocean. 1t was the
first spice known to man and for ages form
ed staple article of commerce between
Europe and the Orient. Tribute has been
levied on pepper; as in the year 40S, when
Alaric demanded three thousand pounds
of it as part of the ransom of Rome All
through the Middle Ages pepper corn
rents prevailed. the renter being compel
led to pay pound of pepper at stated in
tervals. The exorbitant price of it, when
brought by the Arabs across the deserts,
led the Portuguese to seek a sea-route to
India, in the course of which they dis
covered the passage around the Cape of
Good Hope; and thereafter. for two hun
dred wears, the pepper-trade remained
almost a monopoly of the Portuguese
Crown. In England pepper used to be
very heavily taxed. as late as 1928 the i'm
ports amounting to IS sd the ID. Venice,
Genoa and other cities of Southern Eu-
rope owned their early wealth to traffic in
pepper; would it not be curious if the
same thing should happen to some of
these out Of the-wav towns of our new
possession? History sometimes repeats
herself. Nova days the largest ouapti-
ties of pepper are produced in Penang,
the island of RHO and lahore near Singa-
pore. "Jamaica PEPPER So called, which
is indigenous also to California. Florida
and other parts of our South. is not pep
per at all. but the fruit of an evergreen
tree of the MYRTLE family. In the West
Indies it is known as t.pimento.n and
with us as ssAllspice," being supposed to
combine the tlavors of all spices. Con
sidering the amount of allspice used. for
tunes must hang in the beautiful pink
clusters of these common pimento trees.
waiting for the picking,
As to Cuban coffee: the industry has
about gone out of date in recent Years.
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