. Cocoa and chocolate; a short history of their production and use. Cocoa; Chocolate; cbk. II. / THE COCOA TREE AND ITS FRUIT. (" Thcohroma Cacao") HE term " cocoa " is a corruption of '• cacao," but is almost uni- versally used in English-speaking countries. The cacao tree belongs to the natural order of Sterculiaceas, — a family of about 41 genera and 521 species, inhabiting the warmer regions of the world. None of them grow naturally in our climate or in Europe, and, except- T. ing the little yellow-flowered Mahernia, they are very seldom seen in our conservatories.
. Cocoa and chocolate; a short history of their production and use. Cocoa; Chocolate; cbk. II. / THE COCOA TREE AND ITS FRUIT. (" Thcohroma Cacao") HE term " cocoa " is a corruption of '• cacao," but is almost uni- versally used in English-speaking countries. The cacao tree belongs to the natural order of Sterculiaceas, — a family of about 41 genera and 521 species, inhabiting the warmer regions of the world. None of them grow naturally in our climate or in Europe, and, except- T. ing the little yellow-flowered Mahernia, they are very seldom seen in our conservatories. The tirst references to the tree and its products are found in the accounts of the explorers and conquerors who followed Columbus. Their descriptions are remarkably accurate in all essential particulars. One of the earliest, if not indeed the very earliest, delineations of the tree is in a rare volume by Bontekoe.^ The engraving, which is here * The figure in the left of the foreground is said by Bontekoe to represent the native method of procuring fire by rapidly twirling a pointed stick in a groove of a piece of wood placed on the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Walter Baker & Company. Dorchester, Mass. , W. Baker & co. , limited
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