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At the time of signing the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which proposed an end to the War of English Succession, the Burgomaster of Amsterdam made a present to Louis XIV, which consisted of a few coffee plants that were entrusted to Jardin du Roi.
was thought to send these plants to Martinique to ensure, in full independence, providing France with regard to coffee. The first attempt failed. Then, he was commissioned to transport infantry captain Gabriel De Clieu that traveled to reach fruition. Once there, the crew planted the coffee, protecting them from thieves and predators. Day after day they relieved guard next to the coffee. Finally, after the first flowering, grains were harvested and distributed to the people who took great care of them. A mid-eighteenth century, the harvest reached 10.000 bags per year. Hence, coffee set out to conquer the continent of America. Guadeloupe, Haiti and Central America then received one by one, the new plant, mostly through missionaries. He arrived in Guatemala, Chiapas and Oaxaca expanded to up to several areas of the southeast. From there, he began to expand towards the center of the republic of Mexico.
The history of Robusta coffee growing, says Michel Vanier, is different from the Arabica. For robusta no travel, transplantation, or acclimatizations through the botanical gardens and is found in the wild in Africa, where it was sufficient to find in the forests that cover the low elevation lands. Arabica is a native of Abyssinia, Ethiopian province, but, unlike Robusta, Arabica man had to spread throughout the world and if you travel, are transplanted and acclimated

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