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SPICES 
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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 : ^ — 
Year. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
1867 
8,178 lb. 
£2864 
1868 
6,846 „ 
2164 
1869 
4,805 „ 
3748 
1870 
10,785 „ 
9706 
The United States Trade Keturns for 1902 give a 
table of imports into that country, from 1894 to 1902, 
and their valuation. 
Year. 
Weight. 
Value. 
Average value 
per lb. 
$ 
$ 
1894 
171,556 lb. 
727,853 
4-2 
1896 
335,763 „ 
1,013,608 
4-2 
1899 
272,174 „ 
1,235,412 
4*5 
1900 
265,966 „ 
1,209,334 
4-7 
1901 
248,988 „ 
875,229 
3*5 
1902 
361,739 „ 
859,399 
2-3 
The following figures are taken from an article by 
M. Henri Vermond in La DepecJie coloniale illustree, 
1 Simmonds, Tropical Agriculturist. 
