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added to as necessary. When the trays are filled with vanilla, 
and the chloride vessels are in am p'acon, the door is closed and 
nod = perfectly into the doo E o be quite sure that the 
box e hermetic cally closed all is. in the box should be 
e fafaséls and 
Every two or three days the vanilla is ur d and 
any pods showing moisture are taken out put aside to be 
sunned and prepared by themselves in a special box, whet they 
are a collecte 
In from 25 to 30 days the vanilla. will have reached t 
required degree p dryness. Practice will show the exact maeta! 
when they should be withdrawn. 
Vanilla insufficiently dry will not keep and breeds small 
worms; vanilla over-dried keeps well, but it is not supple, it is 
called « broken " (brisée) and has les s commercial value 
fter leaving the box, the coer is placed for jevbrid days 
on small frames in a covered and well- ventilated lace, then it is 
removed and shut up in tin boxes, each holding from 15 to 20 kilos. 
of van 
Ther e it remains for several weeks, being examined every 
two or diee days and any showing traces of mildew is taretdliy 
d. 
When it is thought that the vanilla has reached perfection 
(endas à point) and its perfume well developed, the cleaning of 
not Mi Seine to this process is dull in colour and does not 
keep w 
25 bh 30 litres of water at about 60° Cent. (140° Fahr.) are 
emptied into a perfectly clean receptacle and 15 to 20 kilos. of 
vanilla are thrown into it and vigorously stirred up in the water 
by hand. 
The pods are withdrawn, lightly wiped and put to dry in the 
shade. Ina few days when the pods are dry,they are sorted and 
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Vanilla hold ee be sent away immediately after dealing 
with it. It must be watched s = et a month to be quite sure 
that it will keep during a sea v 
uring the time it is being acd the boxes should be 
examined twice a week, and every pod showing the least trace of 
moisture should be w dei. 
The mildewed pods are worked up by various processes and 
sold as quite inferior vanilla. 
DXCIX.—DATE depu note IN BUSSORAH. 
foie on the cultivation of the Date palm in South Australia 
n the Kew Bulletin (1895. pp- 161-2), and in Antigua 
(1896, | a 726-28). An extract from a Report on the Trade 
