. Coffee; its history and also its remarkable growth in the world of commerce. Coffee. [from old catalog]. Why not try the T & T brand of Coffee sold in cans? England preceded France, however, in the coffee house, one having been opened in London, in St. Michael's alley, Cornhill, by Pasqua Rossie, a Greek from Smyrna, in 1652. Of course the establishment of coffee houses at this critical period made trouble, and though Oliver Cromwell, who became Lord Pro- tector in the following year, made no serious objection to them, Charles II. did, and in 1675 proclaimed against them. In his proclama
. Coffee; its history and also its remarkable growth in the world of commerce. Coffee. [from old catalog]. Why not try the T & T brand of Coffee sold in cans? England preceded France, however, in the coffee house, one having been opened in London, in St. Michael's alley, Cornhill, by Pasqua Rossie, a Greek from Smyrna, in 1652. Of course the establishment of coffee houses at this critical period made trouble, and though Oliver Cromwell, who became Lord Pro- tector in the following year, made no serious objection to them, Charles II. did, and in 1675 proclaimed against them. In his proclamation he said that "the retailing of coffee might be an innocent trade, but as it was used to nourish sedition, spread lies and scandalize great men, it might also be a common ; However, as in other places, common sense triumphed, and the coffee house became an institution. In 1690 the governor general of the Dutch East Indies planted a few seeds in his garden at Batavia, on the island of Java. The seeds sprouted and the plants flourished, so that Governor Van Hoorne commenced the cultivation of them. One of these Javan plants was sent to Holland, and it continued to flourish in the botanic garden in Amsterdam, so that some of its seeds were sent to Surinam, in Dutch Guiana, in 1718. From there the plant spread, and now the progeny of that single plant that was sent from Java to Holland in 1691 or 1692 produces more coffee than is produced by all the other plants in the world. In our own country coffee was known as early as the beginning of the eighteenth century. Naturally it came over with the aristocratic governors of the colonies, and the old Krieger's Tavern of New Amsterdam became the King's Arms Tavern of colonial New York, and the " Burns' Coffee House" of later times. Under the roof of Burns' Coffee House, on the 3lst of October, 1763, was passed the resolution to import no more goods from England until the stamp act was repealed. Thus was a
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