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SPICES 



CHAP. 



of India, and part on the equator on account of its 

 excessive humidity ; and further, that all the most 

 extensive cultivations are on islands, with the exception 

 of the original home of the plant in Mexico. 



TRADE AND WORLD SUPPLY 



Professor Dunstan (Bulletin Imperial Institute, 1904, 

 30) points out that it is difficult to obtain reliable 

 statistics of the production of vanilla, since the cultiva- 

 tion of this product is so widely distributed in tropical 

 countries, and the imports of it into the principal con- 

 suming countries are comparatively of so little value 

 that they are rarely separately given. 



Imports into the United Kingdom : * 



a 



The United States Trade Returns for 1902 give 

 table of imports into that country, from 1894 to 1902, 

 and their valuation. 



The following figures are taken from an article by 

 M. Henri Vermond in La Depeche coloniale illustree, 



1 Simmonds, Tropical Agriculturist. 



