Peppercorns - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 45550 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 139.01 PIPERACEAE Piper nigrum | Entry Book Number | 10.1894 | |
| Artefact Name | Peppercorns | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Trinidad and Tobago | TDWG Region | Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| Parts Held | Peppercorns | Geography Description | Trinidad | ||
| Uses | PeppercornsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Hart JH | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Grown at Convict Depot, Chaguanas?, Trinidad. From plants supplied by this department Supt Royal Botanic Gardens. Some trees bore as much as 2lbs each. Opuscular source: Report by Messrs W & D Harvest, Dowgate Dock, Upper Thames Street, E., C. Dated 30.1.94. 'The sample of black pepper grown in Trinidad which you have sent us is a good merchantable article. It is clean & bold and resembles the better qualities of Tellicherry Black Pepper except that it has rather more husk or outer skin. The, market value in Mincing Lane would be about 2 3/8 to 2 1/2 d per lb. This is an extremely low price for Black Pepper of good quality free from dust but the market is now depressed beyond former precedent by the very large stocks held in Europe and by wha, t appears to be an almost unlimited production in the Straits Settlements. It is not very long since that pepper of this quality would have readily fetched in public sales from 5 to 5 1/2 d per lb. Extract from letter of J H Hart to Director' Sample of Bl, ack Pepper grown by Mr C.W. Meadow? of the Convict Depot Trinidad where some 200 lb has been harvested some trees bearing as much as 2 lbs each. Jan 29. 1894. | ||||