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100	1		_aGalbraith, S. J.
245	1	0	_aVanilla culture as practiced in the Seychelles Islands
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBulletin (United States. Division of Botany) ; no. 21.
500			_aRelease date is 2025-10-11
505	0		_aIntroduction to Mr. Galbraith's paper, by D.G. Fairchild -- General conditions -- Starting a vanillery -- Preparing the vines for cropping -- Pollination of the flowers -- Curing the pods for market -- Miscellaneous information and notes -- Summary.
508			_aCarla Foust, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_aVanilla culture as practiced in the Seychelles Islands by S. J. Galbraith is a scientific agricultural bulletin written in the late 19th century. It explains the practical cultivation and processing of vanilla, emphasizing climate, soil, planting systems, hand pollination, curing, and marketing, with guidance shaped by experience in the Seychelles. The bulletin opens with a warning by D. G. Fairchild about a devastating fungous disease and the need to exclude it from new growing regions, then presents Galbraith’s field-tested methods. He describes the Seychelles’ humid, warm conditions and suitable soils; advocates wider spacing and training vines on individual support trees to reduce disease; and explains how to start a vanillery using long cuttings, mulching, shading, and careful tying and lowering of vines. He details preparing vines for flowering by timely checking of growth to align with a short dry spell, then outlines precise hand pollination, prudent fruit set per vine, and harvest cues to avoid splitting. The curing method features brief hot-water scalds, sweating in blankets, and slow drying through a heated, then warm, then cool room, followed by sorting by length and quality, neat bundling, and tin packing. Practical notes cover variable yields tied to weather, labor organization, pruning, replanting from cuttings, alternative sun-curing, and root mulching strategies. A closing summary lists ideal conditions and step-by-step best practices for culture, cropping, curing, and marketing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cWashington: Government Printing Office, 1898
653			_aVanilla industry -- Seychelles
700	1		_aFairchild, David, _d1869-1954
830		0	_aBulletin (United States. Division of Botany) ; no. 21.
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/vanillacultureas21galb/page/n5/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77026
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