<P> Ei! wie schmeckt der Coffee süße, Lieblicher als tausend Küsse, Milder als Muskatenwein . Coffee, Coffee muss ich haben, Und wenn jemand mich will laben, Ach, so schenkt mir Coffee ein! (Oh! How sweet coffee does taste, Better than a thousand kisses, Milder than muscat wine . Coffee, coffee, I've got to have it, And if someone wants to perk me up, * Oh, just give me a cup of coffee!) </P> <P> The race among Europeans to obtain live coffee trees or beans was eventually won by the Dutch in 1616 . Pieter van den Broecke, a Dutch merchant, obtained some of the closely guarded coffee bushes from Mocha, Yemen, in 1616 . He took them back to Amsterdam and found a home for them in the Botanical gardens, where they began to thrive . This apparently minor event received little publicity, but was to have a major impact on the history of coffee . </P> <P> The beans that van der Broecke acquired from Mocha forty years earlier adjusted well to conditions in the greenhouses at the Amsterdam Botanical Garden and produced numerous healthy Coffea arabica bushes . In 1658 the Dutch first used them to begin coffee cultivation in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and later in southern India . They abandoned these cultivations to focus on their Javanese plantations in order to avoid lowering the price by oversupply . </P> <P> Within a few years, the Dutch colonies (Java in Asia, Suriname in the Americas) had become the main suppliers of coffee to Europe . </P>

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