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ADVERTISEMENTS.
ROBERT M'T ear,
ST. MAEY'S HALL, 33 & 37 EENFIELD STEEET.
AUCTIONS conducted and VALUATIONS effected, with Matured Experience,
EfSciency, Economy, and Promptitude.
THE SALE ROOMS ARE UNSURPASSED. THE STOREAGE EXTENSIVE.
TO LET for Soirees, Dinners, Balls, Meetings, &c , ST, MARY'S HALL, 33 Renfield Street, recently
extensively altered and improved. Lighted entirely from the ceiling, beautifully Painted, Gilt, and
Decorated, having Six Magnificent Mirrors, fitted with Johnston's Translucent Lustres, and efficiently Ven-
tilated. New Retiring and Cloak Rooms have been built, and Kitchen and Supper Rooms added; altogether
forming one of the most elegant and convenient Suites of Rooms in the City.
For terms, apply to Mr. M'Tear, the Lessee.
SUGAR POUNDING.
AND
29 M'PHEESON STREET (off High Street), GLASGOW.
The only Steam-potcer Roasting Establishment connected icith the Trade in the Clt>j.
DMINTO begs leave to return thanks to the Grocers and Druggists of this town and vicinity for past
• favours.
He also begs to intimate, that in connection with his Coffee-Roasting, and Coffee and Spice-Grinding
Works, he has fitted up an extensive Sugar Pounding Jlachine, offering to the Confectioners and Trade in
general an advantageous opportunity of having their Sugar Pounded by Steam-power, far surpassing
anything ever yet offered to the Trade.
P.S. — All Orders invnctually attended to, and delivered hy his Vans at the proper time.
29 Jl'Pherson Street, off High Street,
Glasgow, May, 1865.
The Coffee Plant, " Coffea Arahica" of Linnasus, is an evergreen, and, as may be inferred from its
scientific name, is a native of Arabia. It produces a pulpy berry about the size of a small cherry, inclosing
two seeds, which, separated from their pulpy envelope, form the well known Coffee Beans of commerce. It
maj' be remarked, as a singular fact in reference to Coffee, that while all of the vegetable kingdom that have
been taken under the care of man have been improved, it alone asserts its independence; for, although
cultivation may greatly enlarge the crop, it as certainly, at the same time, deteriorates the flavour, and the
produce of the wild plant still maintains the highest figure in the market. It is well known that Coffee
would be of no real value were it not properly roasted — a process which, as it requires much skill, is only
to be acquired by experience. How man became acquainted with the fact, that the tasteless seeds of a
berrj', when roasted, ground, and infused, would form a grateful beverage, will most probably remain a
secret to the end of time. That the development of its useful properties depends -vvholiy upon the roasting,
is evident. About two hundred years ago Coffee was first introduced into England, since wl)ich its con-
sumption has steadily increased, and deservedly so, when its medical properties are coofi lered, it having
leen found useful in headaches arising from a particular state of the stomach, and much benefit having been
derived from its exhibition in cases of asthma.
A French scientific gentleman, who has directed his attention to this subject says: — "I have found that
Coffee is better roasted, and more of the aroma retained, when a double cylinder is used — the air between
the interior and exterior cjdinders acting as a non-conductor of heat. It is done more uniformly, while the
essential oil on which the aroma depends is liable to be di.-psrsed, than when expoicd to the fierce heat of a
fire in a single cylinder."
In the double rotatory globular method of roasting as practiced as Mr. Minto's Works, 29 M'Pherson
Street, off High Street, Glasgow, the above p-inciple is acted upon, inasmuch as the globe (which has super-
peded the cylinder since the application of steam-power to this branch) revolves in a medium of heated air,
which, experience has shown, best prevents the dispersion of the essential oil, or aroma.
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