. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 196 THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS June 22, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. THE INTRODUCTION OF VANILLA INTO REUNION AND MAURITIUS. Vanilla was introduced into tlie island of Reunion in 1822, by an official of the colony, M. :\Iatchant, who brought the planting material from the Jardin .lu Eoi, Paris. According to the Bulletin Agricole of Mauritius, for March 1912, from which this information is taken, M. Marchant saw a plant of vanilla flourishing at the place mentioned, while on a visit to Paris in 1817 or 1818. His surpri
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 196 THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS June 22, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. THE INTRODUCTION OF VANILLA INTO REUNION AND MAURITIUS. Vanilla was introduced into tlie island of Reunion in 1822, by an official of the colony, M. :\Iatchant, who brought the planting material from the Jardin .lu Eoi, Paris. According to the Bulletin Agricole of Mauritius, for March 1912, from which this information is taken, M. Marchant saw a plant of vanilla flourishing at the place mentioned, while on a visit to Paris in 1817 or 1818. His surprise at the circumstance that so valuable a plant had not been intro- duced into Pieunion was shared by M. Thouin, the Director of the Jardin du Roi, and in consequence two or three cut- tings were prepared so that they may be taken to that colony on the return thither of M. Marchant. In 1825, one of the plants flowered, and in the following year two perfectly mature pods were formed. His desire to increase the culti- vation of such an interesting and useful plant, led M. ]\Iar- chant to take several cuttings, some of which were sent by him to Mauritius, to :M. A. Geneve, an old colonist of Mauritius, who made the original note from which these details are derived. He received the cuttings in November 1827; and after much care, and in spite of damage to the original plant by a storm, in the next year, was able to raise cuttings and eventually obtain the fruit. This fruit consisted of ele fen beans, which were obtained on M. Geneve's property of Eivere Noir. THE DOUBLE COCO-NUT PALM. At the recent Agricultural Conference, a specimen of tke fruit of the double coco-nut or coco-de-mer {Lodoicea sechellarum) was exhibited, which had been grown in the British Guiana Botanic Gardens {Wat Indian Bulletin, Vol. XII, p. 182). The exhibit possessed all the greater interest because, as was explained, the specimen shown was probably the first example of the fruit produced in the Western Hemi
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