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THE Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, publishes, as Memoir No. 7, November 1937, a very valuable summary of the methods now available to bring the produce of the tropics to the English markets, which goes far to explain the greater variety and interest of the window display of the greengrocer and the fruiterer throughout all the months of the year. Some 150 names of vegetables and fruits are listed—for many of these, as citrons, bananas and pineapples there is already much experience gathered and a long bibliography to cite, while others like mangoes and the papaw attract attention as household words of the tropics from which much is to be hoped if distance and time can be conquered ; but so far their transport is evidently in the experimental stage. Many of the fruits and vegetables enumerated have been but names, if that, to dwellers in the temperate zones so far ; the litchi has arrived in much larger quantities lately and been much appreciated ; the mangosteen and the langsat are still awaited. This list raises many hopes, and this concise summary of practical experience should prove of material value in enabling importers and transporters to learn how much has already been achieved and what possibilities there are for the future. Copies of this publication may be obtained (price 4s., British; 4s. 6d., foreign) on application to the Editor, Tropical Agriculture, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, B.W.I.
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Transport of Tropical Fruits and Vegetables. Nature 141, 866 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141866c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141866c0