An historical account of coffee : with an engraving, and botanical description of the tree
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An historical account of coffee : with an engraving, and botanical description of the tree
（Cambridge library collection, . Botany and Horticulture）
Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1774
Reprint. Originally published: London : Printed and sold by L. Davis, printer to the Royal Society, opposite Gray's-Inn, Holborn, 1770
"This digitally printed version 2013"--T.p. verso
Contents of Works
- Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East-Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation : together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionæa muscipula : or, Venus's fly-trap / by John Ellis
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This tract, which first appeared in 1774, considers the characteristics, cultivation and uses of the coffee plant. Its author, John Ellis (c.1710-76), was a botanist and zoologist who from 1770 to 1776 served as a London agent for the government of Dominica. Published in order to promote the prosperity of the island, the work reflects the difficulties faced by the coffee growers. Ellis begins by describing the flower and fruit of the coffee plant. He then presents his historical survey, drawing on contemporaneous travel writing to illuminate coffee-related practices around the globe. The narrative takes in the plant's early uses in Arabia, its cultivation in the colonies, and the growth of coffee houses in Europe. This reissue also contains a 1770 work by Ellis which gives instructions on transporting plants overseas. Reissued elsewhere in this series is The Early History of Coffee Houses in England (1893).
Table of Contents
- Preface
- An historical account of coffee
- Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East-Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation
- A botanical description of the Dionaea muscipula, or Venus's fly-trap.
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