Any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans.
1Some attention has been given to the cultivation of the coffee tree.
2The coffee tree is a most serviceable plant, every part of which can be used.
3Thus the proportions in the coffee tree are-
4The coffee tree bears flowers only the second year, and its blossoms last only 24 hours.
5Buried inside was her real gift to him-clippingsfrom a coffee tree, including fertile coffee cherries.
6The nearest place to Sana where the coffee tree grows, is at Arfish, half a day distant.
7Lime is an useful application, especially to stiff soils, as the coffee tree contains 60 parts of lime.
8Here, too, is the favorite zone of the coffee tree, which thrives best one thousand feet above sea level.
9This is the worst kind of soil for the coffee tree, whose long tap-root is ever seeking nourishment from beneath.
10According to Liebig's classification of plants, the coffee tree falls under the description of those noted for their preponderance of lime.
11When first known, the coffee tree was a wild shrub growing among the hills of Caffa, in the northeastern part of Africa.
12The coffee tree produces its first crop when it is about five years old but can produce berries for more than 50 years.
13This is a minute and gregarious insect, which lives upon the juices of the coffee tree, and accordingly is most destructive to an estate.
14The first coffee tree was found in Arabia, and in spite of the various transplantations it has undergone, the best coffee is yet obtained there.
15Landslides on farms were largely avoided because coffee trees stabilize the soil.
16They walked a way in silence, climbing through the terraced coffee trees.
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