Project Gutenberg 2025-10-11 Public domain in the USA. 178 Galbraith, S. J. Fairchild, David 1869 1954 Fairchild, David G. (David Grandison) Fairchild, David Grandison Fairchild, D. G. (David Grandison) agr09000508 Vanilla culture as practiced in the Seychelles Islands $aWashington :$bGovernment Printing Office, $c1898. Bulletin (United States. Division of Botany) ; no. 21. Introduction 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. Carla 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.) Vanilla 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.) https://archive.org/details/vanillacultureas21galb/page/n5/mode/2up 20211001171030galbraith 1898 US en Vanilla industry -- Seychelles QK Text 89054 2025-11-30T10:21:22.246137 text/html 63466 2025-10-11T10:43:55 text/html 847095 2025-11-30T10:21:26.220106 application/epub+zip 845895 2025-11-30T10:21:23.581165 application/epub+zip 192164 2025-11-30T10:21:22.805118 application/epub+zip 1331881 2025-11-30T10:21:28.142133 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1315005 2025-11-30T10:21:25.656138 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 70612 2025-11-30T10:21:21.980143 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 50510 2025-10-11T10:43:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16322 2025-11-30T10:21:28.283096 application/rdf+xml 15465 2025-11-30T10:21:23.013115 image/jpeg 2259 2025-11-30T10:21:22.909122 image/jpeg 1334595 2025-11-30T10:21:22.280126 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia