NUTS FOR ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 291, 4 September 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)

NUTS FOR ENGLAND

Where They Gome From From all parts of the eastern hemisphere nuts are imported into England. Hugo quantities of dates go from Iraq. About 250,000 cases are imported with each ship. All nuts are cracked, dried and blanched in factories, though they are, of course, kilndried in their shells before being exported. Walnuts come from Bessarabia and Rumania, where the peasant farmers have magnificent trees bearing specially large and sound nuts, which are impossible to blanch because of their shape. Peanuts are imported from America all the year round. The Brazils begin to come into England iu January. About 30,000 tons are imported between January and June. There are no fewer than 28 kinds, all differing in flavour, aud all bearing names laden with romance—Alemquin, Tocantine, Ayapuya—'usually the name of a tributary of the Amazon. The oils contained in some make them unsuitable for tlie sweet factory, the best chocolate Brazil being the Acre variety.

Mr. Keys, the organist, was asked out to supper recently, and said: "I’ll bring some music. You might like me to rattle off a few things after supper.” “No.” said the lady who had invited him, “you’ll get no chance of doing that You rattled oft my bust of Chopin last time you came, so this time the piano-top will be bare!”