3-082-693 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Island of Montserrat (West Indies) - barquentine "Hilda" loading lime juice, 1895. 'Up to the time of the Montserrat Co. introducing their Lime-fruit juice, pure Lime-juice was practically unknown, and even at present there is practically no regular source from which Lime-Fruit Juice from cultivated trees can be obtained, but the Montserrat Company...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.