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* Evports.—The exports for the past 10 years has gradually increased, 
the United States being the principal market; small quantities are, 
however, from time to time sent to France and Englan d. 
TABLE showing the Export of Vanilla during the years 1883-92. 
Year. Quantity. » Value. Year. Quantity. | Value. 
| £ 
1883 x - | 2,726 818 is - | 12,569 | 5,028 
isi -o 9 42] SEM 1,636 1889 - -|-8,789 | 1,158 
1885 ‘ - | 4,919 1,475 1890 > Š | 15,882 3,248 
1896 - - | 8,408 2,522 198i <á | 24,585 | 7,456 
1887 4 -| 7,610 3,044 "NM - — d 25,560 | 4,418 
In the United Consular Reports for February 1894, p. 265, the 
D peii. additional information is furnished respecting Vanilla in 
“ Vanilla beans have decreased greatly in value during the past two 
years, owing to the Srey oe of the San Francisco market. During 
the month of December they enhanced slightly in value; but no marked 
improvement can be cet and,in my opinion, none will be realized 
until the 15 tons of ET vanilla in San Francisco are sold. America 
is the largest market for the Tahitian vanilla, and all grown on this 
island finds a market dandi wal perhaps the exception. of about one 
ton, which is sent to other countries. This year there were exported 
to all countries 25, 560 pounds of vanilla, valued at $28,599." 
CCCXCVII.—VANILLA AT FIJI. 
An account of vanilla cultivation at Tahiti is already given. It 
appears that in another group of the Polynesian Islands, now under 
British rule, the same cuitivation has been introduced, and it bids fair 
to become thoroughly established. The infant industr y owes much to 
the encouragement given to it by the praiseworthy efforts of the 
Governor, Sir John Bates Thurston, K.C.M.G. The successive steps 
taken in the matter are set forth. in the following correspondence which 
has passed between the Colonial Office and this establishment :— 
CorowrianL Orrice to Royat GARDENS, Kew. 
Sin, Downing Street, November 7, 1891. 
I am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you a copy © 
Despatch from the Governor of Fiji, forwarding a box stated to contain 
a sample of the last vanilla crop, and requesting an opinion on its value 
and rot sours as to the best mode of preparing it for the European 
