Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-11-17
MANN rTITTRI.

The Press has repeatedly urged a
greater diversity Of industries on these
islands. If the treaty lapse, and leave
the islands one big improbable sugar
plantation, we shall be in the worst
kind of a bad boat. More bananas,
more oranges more alligator pears,
more everything that can find a profit
able market in San Francisco, ought to
be planted and cultivated and inn
proved on the Hawaiian Islands a
movement is on foot which promises to
set the ball rolling in the right dircc-
ton. An association is contemplated
whereby ramie culture and its maun-
lacture into textile fabrics may be car
rled on together the one helping the
other. That ramie will grow here has
been demonstrated beyond a doubt by
the experiments of Mr.. G.. G.. Coleman.
But there is no use growing ramle un-
less you have machinery to make use
Of IT, nor to get together expensive
manufacturing plant, unless YOU can be
sure OF paying quantities Of the raw
material. If the industry can be
pushed as it deserves, much good may
come of it. Half a dozen well estab
lishcd industries of the sort would make
us independent of the treaty-a tub
standing on its own bottom.
4 LITTLE ABOTT SOHE FRUJTs.
In an article on Tropical Fruits and
Their Sale in New York, the Evening
Post Of that city says "The alligator
pear sells for from 70 to 40 cents each.
When fully ripe it weighs from one to
two pounds. One pear will make as
much salad as lobster or a chicken.
In the West Indies and Mexico this
fruit is called aguacate. In Brazil it is
called the patio. From 900 to 500 are
sold every week during the season from
June I TO November /. If the pear
be split open and pen or sharp.
pointed stick be dipped into the jelly
like mass, the compound can be used as
indelible ink, The mark made by it is
at first dirty cream color, but becomes
darker with time, finally assuming a
deep salmon hue, and there is no
known acid which will remove it. The
sapodlIla, or zapote, is also called maze
berry. 1t is of two kinds, the long
and the fiat The meat of the former
is white, and much finer than the latter
which Is OF coarse salmon color. 1t
is the finest fruit for eating out of hand
The prices range from 80 cents to 81
per dozen. The season begins in
March Ist and ends September Ist
From $4,000 to SO, 900 of this fruit
are imported yearly. A dry season
shrlvels up the fruit. The star apple
or calamitos, is very beautiful fruit,
the skin being purple or light green,
the meat being of corresponding
color, becoming gradually paler until it
is a clear white at the core This when
cut open through the centre shows the
form of a star. The chirimoya, or
= -cHstard apple, weighs from one pound
to two and n...lf About 1900 are
sold every season at prices ranging
from 10 to 80 cents each The sugar
apple, or guanabana, sometimes called
sweetsop resembles the chirimoya
The soursop is used only to make a
drink. The bread fruit was first intro
duced three years ago. 1t should be
thoroughly kneaded like dough, rolled
out into thin sheets and baked on hot
irons" All this may sound trite to us
in Honolulu. But il we would ''go in
for raising more of the fruits we might
raise, we need have less fear of the loss
of the treaty. The fruit industry is
part of the 'food for thought" the situa-
zion has prepared for us.
40 ON VITII FOHESTRY