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Courtesy of Bulletin of Pan American Union

NEAR VIEW OP COPPEE TREE SHOWING FRUIT.

When ripe the fruit is red, and looks; something like a cranberry. The coffee we buy is the seed

of this berry. There are usually two seeds in a berry. Under the outer skin is a sticky

pulp which incloses the seeds or beans, and these beans are coated with a coarse

husK called "parchment," and under this is a very thin jacket known

as the "silver-skin/