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propagated, when budded trees of this practically immune variety 

 will be available for distribution. 



Twelve thousand Rough Lemon and Seville Orange stocks have 

 been raised from seed obtained from Jamaica ; these are now ready 

 for transplanting to the nursery rows where they will be budded 

 and prepared for distribution. Buds can be imported from Ame- 

 rica at a cost of $1.50 per lOO." 



Bananas. — "The Canary Island banana (Musa Caveudishii) 

 thrives exceedingly in Bermuda, probably better than in any other 

 part of the world ; including that part of China which is its native 

 habitat. 



Its doing so well here is another instance of the peculiar effect 

 of our uni(|ue climate upon certain plants. 



There are in Bermuda probably not more than thirty acres 

 under bananas, planted and cultivated in a style that did very well 

 when there was plenty of land and some to waste, but which would 

 have to be replaced by more up-to-date methods if the banana 

 became an article of export. There is evidently a good demand for 

 Canary bananas in America, for the United Fruit Company, the 

 great collecting and distributing firm, sends as far as the Cana- 

 ries for them : and it is quite possible that if constant supplies 

 were forthcoming from Bermuda this firm would undertake to re- 

 ceive them at New York. 



Planted ten feet by eight apart and given even less care than is 

 bestowed upon potatoes, an acre of bananas could be made to 

 yield in Bermuda quite 2,000 bunches per annum." 



VANILLA STATISTICS.'^* 



Mr. Hermann Mayer Senior, vanilla importer, gives the follow- 

 ing figures, which approximately represent the world's output of 

 vanilla during the seasons 1905-6: Burbon, 70 tons ; Seychelles, 

 45 tons ; Mauritius, 5 tons ; Comores, Mayotte, Madagascar, &c. 120 

 tons ; Guadeloupe, Java, Ceylon, and Fiji, 10 tons ; Mexico, 70, tons; 

 Tahiti, lOO tons— total, about 420 tons. Comparing the above 

 figures with 1904-5 it may be noted that the world's output was 

 larger by about forty tons. A British Consular report on Tahiti 

 states that the exports during 1905 amounted in value to £12,087 

 against £15,969 in 1904, £23,424 in 1903, and £47.417 i" ^902. 

 Last year the exports by weight amounted to I22{ tons against 

 I34i tons in 1904. The U. S. A. received 92 tons, France 25^- 

 tons, New Zealand i\ tons, and the United Kingdom 7| tons. No 

 steps have yet been taken to conserve this industry at Tahiti, 

 remarks the Consul, and as a consequence, the local price has 

 further fallen from the equivalent of is. oi^d. per lb. in 1904 to 

 I0| per lb. in 1905. 



* From "The Chemist and llrihi<jid" June dO, 1906. 



