Le Café, Culture—manipulation—production

Abstract

COFFEE in its various commercial aspects, whether from the point of view of the planter, the broker, the retail dealer, or the consumer, has from time to time commanded a great deal of attention. Occupying as it does a large and extended area of cultivation within the tropics, and being an important branch of industrial culture in many of the British possessions, as Jamaica, Ceylon, Southern India, and Borneo, it is but reasonable to expect that treatises on the cultivation, best means of improvement of yield and quality, prevention of disease, &c., would be numerous. In the English language many such works are available, and if this be so, bearing on a culture which though large and important is small in comparison with that of Brazil, Central America, Mexico, Java, and Sumatra, we might also expect to find a large number of books in the languages of the nations to which these extensive coffee growing countries belong.

Le Café, Culture—manipulation—production.

Par Henri Lecomte, Agrégé de l'Université, Docteur es Sciences, &c. Pp. vi + 342. (Paris: Georges Carré et C. Naud, 1899.)