A correspondent of a Home paper, writing from Teneriffe, states that with the practical disappearance of the cochineal industry, killed as it was by the discovery of aniline dyes from coal tar, the commercial prosperity of the Canary Islands received a blow from which for many long years it never recovered. The adaptibility of the soil and climate to the growing of tomatoes, many hundreds of tons of which leave the islands every season, must have compensated largely for the loss occasioned by the failure of the cochineal trade. For a considerable time past, however, rumours have been rife concerning a disease which has attacked the plant, rendering its produce in many instances quite unfit for exportation. Every endeavour has been made to localise the mischief, but without success, and it is reported that crops in all parts of the Canary Islands are seriously affected, and that growers view the prospect of the approaching season with considerable apprehension.
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New Zealand Mail, 21 July 1892, Page 5
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