Four years ago, a convenient handbook on the production and use of
various preparations of the chocolate plant was published by our firm.
The present work is designed to give, with considerably more detail,
some of the interesting facts relative to the early history and
cultivation of the chocolate tree, as well as a fuller account of its
botany and the chemistry of its products. Since this _brochure_ will
doubtless fall into the hands of some who do not have access to the
earlier work, we have used with freedom some of the material employed
in that; but we hope that these necessary repetitions will increase
instead of impair the value of the pages now before the reader.
We trust that this second treatise may be acceptable to our many
friends who gave so warm a welcome to the first.