Dirkley's "Father of Coffee trees in Central and South America"

In the mid-18th century, coffee shops opened in major European cities, and the huge demand for coffee led to a craze for coffee cultivation in Central America. Most of the tibeka coffee trees in central america today are related to dekley's transplanted "coffee mother tree." In 1777 nineteen million coffee trees were planted on Martinique alone. Haiti, Puerto Rico and Cuba in the Caribbean have followed suit. In Central and South America, coffee was first grown in Guatemala in 1750, and Costa Rica (1779), Venezuela (1784), Colombia (1732), Mexico (1790) and Brazil (1727) competed to introduce coffee trees. If, so to speak, the mayor of Amsterdam had resisted the urge for grandiosity in 1714 and had not presented King Louis XIV with a Java coffee sapling, there would have been no legend of Deckley escorting the Mother Coffee Tree, and the history of coffee cultivation in Central and South America would have been rewritten.

Deckley broke into the Royal Botanic Gardens to steal coffee saplings, but he led the French colonial coffee boom and contributed a lot to France's large foreign exchange. King Louis XV not only pardoned him for theft, but appointed him governor of Guaddupe in the West Indies from 1737 to 1759, and his name was included in the list of distinguished French naval officers, who died in-774. In the history of France, because of the wrong theft, it has achieved a cause beneficial to all mankind. Klee was the first. Coffee historian and author William Ukers praised this history: "The legend of French officer Deckley's death to protect the 'coffee tree' is the most romantic chapter in the history of human coffee cultivation." Deskley's descendants have also built the Deskley Museum in Dieppe, a resort in northern France, in memory of his legend. Deckley is rightly called the father of the tibeka coffee tree in central and south america.