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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/
