3-082-691 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Island of Montserrat (West Indies) - coast of Montserrat - boat taking lime juice to ship, 1895. '"The Messrs. Sturge have established...a large plantation of limes, and a manufactory of Lime Juice, which promises to be able to supply, in good time, vast quantities of that most useful of all sea medicines, and I for one heartily bid God-speed to the enterprise" [Charles Kingsley]...The juice from the choice fruit is promptly headed up in casks...The plantations of the Montserrat Company already cover nearly 1,000 acres, and more than 100,000 gallons of Pure Lime-Fruit Juice is produced annually. The juice is brought over in large casks to this country, when, after being allowed to settle, it is clarified and bottled by the sole consignees, Evans, Sons & Co., Liverpool...The Lancet...[recommends] lime-fruit juice as one of the best and most wholesome beverages extant; and also recommending the public to obtain the best lime-juice, and not concoctions sold under that name. It further remarked: "We have subjected the samples of the lime-fruit juice of the Montserrat Company to full analysis, with a view to test its quality and purity. We have found it to be in sound condition, and entirely free from adulteration".' From "Illustrated London News", 1895.