VANILLA CONSIGNMENT
ORCHID USED FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES. In a Port warehouse an aromatic, weet and piquant odour prevailed. It vas explained that a large consignment of vanillas was housed on one if the upper floors, states the “Port of Condon Authority.” Vanillas arrive here in boxes containing bundles of longish beans as much as 10 inches in length and i inch wide, not unlike runner beans, but of a dark brown colour and oily exuding surface. The beans are the seed pods of a tropical orchid. It is the only orchid used for industrial, purposes. Some of the vanilla beans were covered with crystalline efflorescence —a criterion of choice quality. Close at hand, the scene becomes- cloying, and is preferable in small quantities as flavouring in chocolates, ices, jellies and perfumes! The values of vanillas are as high as £2 per lb.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 5
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142VANILLA CONSIGNMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 5
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