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Quotes from Pomarium Britannicum — Henry Phillips

1779–1840 England

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Rauwolfus,who was in the Levant in 1573, was the first European author who made any mention of coffee.

Pomarium Britannicum (1820)

Theophrastus, who wrote about 300 years before Christ, mentions the almond as the only tree in Greece that produced the blossoms before the leaves. ...
The almond-tree was not cultivated in Italy in the time of Cato, who calls the fruit, nucces græcæ, or greek nuts.

Pomarium Britannicum (1820)

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