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SPICES 
CHAP. 
The greater part of the crop is exported to France, 
but a considerable proportion goes to England. 
The Colonial Office Report for 1905 gives the follow- 
ing table of exports to different countries, in values : — 
1904. 
1905. 
Great Britain 
1,30,593 rupees 
1,37,185 rupees 
France 
1,48,466 „ 
1,36,462 „ 
Mauritius . 
3,987 „ 
64 „ 
Switzerland 
8,400 „ 
8,400 „ 
Germany . 
764 „ 
1902. 
1903. 
Great Britain 
3,56,616 rupees 
3,22,656 rupees 
France 
3,84,994 „ 
1,80,936 „ 
Comoro Islands . — The cultivation started in 1893, 
and by 1903 there were more than 70,000 vines in 
cultivation, giving a yield of 90,000 lb. of pods. The 
vine here grows up to an altitude of 2500 ft. In Great 
Comoro 45,000 vines gave, in 1901, 1060 kilos of pods. 
In Moheli 700,000 vines gave, in 1901, 3000 kilos 
of vanilla, which is described as being of a specially fine 
flavour, and of unusual size. 
Anjouan Island possesses 1,200,000 vanilla plants, 
which gave, in 1901, 16, and in 1902, 18 tons of pods. 
Mayotte possessed, in 1901, 500,000 vines, giving 
13,000 kilos of pods, valued at 40,000 francs. 
Asia . — The cultivation of vanilla has never been 
large anywhere in Asia, although the plant has been 
long introduced to most of the gardens and botanic 
stations of the continent and islands. I can find no 
records of any attempt to grow it commercially in India, 
Siam, Cochin-China, or China. 
In Ceylon, Mr. W. H. Wright seems to have been 
the first to cultivate it with some amount of success. 
