. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. 3ns A TEXT-BOOK OF BOTAXY recognized generally by the regular tubular corolla, the inferior ovary, and the floral number four. However, the tropical members of the family yield two important products that should not escape mention. Coffee.—The coffee plant (Coffea arabica) is a native of Arabia and Abyssinia, and is a slender tree becoming fifteen to twenty-fi\'e feet high (Fig. 294), but rarely allowed to become more than lialf that height in cultivation. The fruit is a dark scarlet berry (Fig. 295) containing two horn-like seeds, which a
. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. 3ns A TEXT-BOOK OF BOTAXY recognized generally by the regular tubular corolla, the inferior ovary, and the floral number four. However, the tropical members of the family yield two important products that should not escape mention. Coffee.—The coffee plant (Coffea arabica) is a native of Arabia and Abyssinia, and is a slender tree becoming fifteen to twenty-fi\'e feet high (Fig. 294), but rarely allowed to become more than lialf that height in cultivation. The fruit is a dark scarlet berry (Fig. 295) containing two horn-like seeds, which are ordinarily called cofTee-beans (Fig. 296). The use. Fig. 294.—The coffee-tree. After Baillon. Fig. 295.—Fruiting branch of coffee. After Baillon. of coffee can be traced back in Arabia for only about five hundred years, and its use in Europe extends over only half that time. Coffee plantations have been established in regions of high annual temperature (ranging from 60° to 90°), Brazil producing more coffee than all other coun-. 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 Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928. New York, D. Appleton
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