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TURKISH PISTACHIO NUTS. 
A communication in Levant Trade Review, 
Constantinople, from Lorenzo Y. Manachy, 
Aleppo, Syria, says: 
“The demand for pistachio nuts from divers 
points as well as from the United States is 
steadily increasing. Prices have in consequence 
advanced. The batman (7.04 pounds) is now 
worth in Aleppo and Aintab 65 to 66 current 
piasters ($2.25 to $2.28). For the United States 
they are generally exported in tin boxes after 
having been salted and roasted. Proprietors in 
the producing centers, encouraged by the excel¬ 
lent income given by the pistachio trees, are mak¬ 
ing special efforts in planting new trees. The 
pistachio tree becomes as big as an ordinary 
olive tree or apple tree and has a very long life. 
It requires not less than eight years to begin to 
bear. 
“The nuts from the pistachio tree (Pistacia 
vera) are bright green oleaginous kernels and 
used to flavor culinary preparations, ices, etc. 
Consul-General Ravndal recently stated: 
“ ‘The United States takes nearly two-thirds 
of the total exports of pistachio nuts, mostly 
from Syria. The 1911 crop in Syria was rela¬ 
tively not as plentiful as that of Persia. The 
exports do not run into high figures on account 
of the extensive Turkish home consumption for 
confectionery. Invoices of pistachio nuts to the 
United States through the various American con¬ 
sulates in Turkey aggregated $114,849 in 1910 
and $ 115,745 in 1911-’.. TT . . 
“The growing of the pistachio in the hinted 
States has been carried on for several years 
under the encouragement of the Department of 
Agriculture, although the trees have not yet pro¬ 
duced commercial crops. The Bureau of Plant 
Industry, after experimentation, finds that the 
most suitable regions for pistachio culture are 
Western Texas, New Mexico and the interior 
valley of Southern California, a dry climate 
being better than a humid one. The demand for 
pistachio nuts is growing, and the American mar¬ 
ket will, it is thought, absorb large quantities 
when they become available.” 
REMARKABLE BONE CAVE. 
An extraordinary “bone cave” may be seen 
in the island of Teneriffe. It is situated near 
the summit of a lofty sea cliff near Orotava, 
close to the small plain of Le Paz, where peace 
was finally made between the conquering 
Spaniards and the Guanches, the original in¬ 
habitants of the island. 
Here the Guanches made their last stand 
and this cave formed a shelter for the small 
remnant left of the tribesmen after the Spanish 
had finished with them. In former times the 
place had evidently been a burial ground of the 
Guanches. and-when first discovered a number 
of mummies were found in it. 
Now, however, only a huge pile of bones 
remains. Access is obtained by descending a 
rope through a hole dug in the roof, but the 
original occupants must have had a difficult and 
dangerous scramble down the face of the almost 
perpendicular cliff to the natural entrance.— 
From Wide World. 
DIVERS OF PERSIAN GULF. 
Most of our pearls come from the Persian 
Gulf, where the output in some years is worth 
as much as £2,400,000. The divers, who are 
chiefly Arabs, have a bad time. Their equipment 
is most primitive, and as they remain under the 
water about three minutes at every plunge, they 
are nearly suffocated by the time they reach the 
surface. 
Most become deaf, and the sturdiest find it 
impossible to keep at the work for more than 
five years. Their masters exact fourteen hours 
a day from them, and during that time the divers 
take no food, but keep themselves going with 
coffee.—From the London Chronicle. 
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