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Definition of Coffee blight
1. Noun. A blight affecting the coffee plant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffee Blight
Literary usage of Coffee blight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Hawaii Minister of the Interior (1898)
"The difficulties in the way of the successful prosecution of coffee cultivation
may be said to be the coffee blight and the insufficiency of labor. ..."
2. Ceylon in the "jubilee Year.": With an Account of the Progress Made Since by John Ferguson (1887)
"The story of the coffee blight is soon told. A few years ago, coffee alone was
seen over hundreds of square miles of hillside and valley, eastward, south, ..."
3. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1883)
"The species of coffee which is indigenous to Liberia promises to have an important
influence on the industry of those countries in which the coffee blight ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Coffee (Coffea arabica) was a very profitable crop until the entrance of the
coffee blight (Hemileia vas- ..."
5. A Handbook of the Philippines by Hamilton Mercer Wright (1909)
"However, in 1889 a coffee blight destroyed the plants, the natives knowing no
method of fighting plant parasites, so that in 190(3 $80000 worth of coffee ..."
6. All about Coffee by William Harrison Ukers (1922)
"Due to its rapid growth, early and prolific yield, resistance to coffee blight,
and many other desirable qualities, Coffea robusta ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"... the best preventive being thorough cultivation, the proper degree of shading,
and the use of fertilizers. The coffee blight (Pulvinaria ..."
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