The virtue and use of coffee, with regard to the plague, and other infectious distempers: containing the most remarkable observations of the greatest men in Europe concerning it ... To which is prefix'd an exact figure of the tree, flower, and fruit / By R. Bradley.

  • Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.
Date:
1721
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Credit: The virtue and use of coffee, with regard to the plague, and other infectious distempers: containing the most remarkable observations of the greatest men in Europe concerning it ... To which is prefix'd an exact figure of the tree, flower, and fruit / By R. Bradley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WHEN we have an Opportunity to propagate thefe Trees from the Berries* we mull:, immediately after they are gathered, carefully take off the outfide Husk, and feparate the two Seeds which are found in each ; and fet them an Inch deep in Pots of fine Earth, which are already warm in a Bed prepared with Horfe-litter; keeping the Glalfes clofe covered for fix Weeks* and often fprinkling them with Water. From this way of Management we may expert them to come up in lefs than two Months time after Sowing. And then, for their further Improvement, you are only to remark, they love Warmth, little Air, a light fandy Earth, and much Waten And this laft Hint anfwers to an Gbfer- vation of that Great Naturalift Sir Hans Sloane ; where he tells us, that the Ara¬ bians cut artificial Channels from the Rivers, oh purpofe to nourifh thefe Plants. See Philojoptical Tranfatiionsj Numb* 208. ag.64* THE SE Rules being well obferved. We may expeft them to bear Fruit in five Years time from the putting in of the Seed ; but in a hotter Clime, E fucfi