The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-12-30
DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES.
TIE LIME.

BRINE no Saltcl tldh 'N"-"eVSi' '"S"
headed up tight. The water should
be changed two or three times.
Lines prepared thus are ready for
use at any time as pickles or pre-
serves by first freshening in clear
water for a few hours.
To preserve lines, the seeds must
he taken out and the lines soaked in
cold water for twenty-four hours,
changing the water three or four
times: then boiled until tender in
water to which little soda has been
added: soak again in water for
twenty-four hours, changing water as
before, when the lines will be ready |
for preserving. To each pound OF
fruit take two pounds of white sugar
and three pints of water; make
syrup first, drop the fruit into 1t, and
cook long enough to become thorough
" heated through: place the lines
in jars set in hot water, boil the
syrup down little and turn over
them: then seal up.
Lines as prepared in both the
above ways have become quite an
article of commerce.
The increasing demand for lines
from the United States is promoting
more attention to its culture In the
West Indies, Mexico and Central
America.
From the port of Acapulco in
Mexico are annually shipped by the
p. Nj. s, S. Co.'S steamers to San
Francisco about IL, 900 boxes of 1000
lines each. This represents value
to the growers of about $500
when selected, packed and brought
to the city for shipment it costs the
exporter about So per case. The
market quotation in San Francisco is
"a to S. per case. In Mexico, the
orchard which has yielded the best
results is one newly planted near
Acapulco, of 5000 trees in close
proximity to the sea-shore in a
sandy black loan.
British Honduras, and the Repub-
lie of Honduras, send to the United
States g small number of barrels OF
lines and are trying to meet an in
creased demand.
In Central America the lime grows
in nearly all parts from sea level to
an altitude of 5000 feet.
The export trade of the West
Indies is limited, being only 7Ol
barrels in 1889, of which $50 went
to the United States.
Jamaica exports some lime juice
and about 700 barrels of fresh LINES
annually which cost locally about 5;
per barrel.
Trinidad exports to America thu
simple expressed juice, and to Eng
land the juice evaporated to abou
one-tenth its volume. The essentia
oil of lines is extracted from thu
rind before crushing by grating Oh
rasps with the hand. The oil j
! superior to that which is obtaine!
from the crushed lines and by dis
tillation.
One hundred gallons of juice vii
weld by distillation about thre
quarts of the essential oil.
Dominica culLivates the lime to
considerable extent and exports t
The United States small quantity @
fresh fruit, but the bulk of it is com
pressed and the juice exported In
raw or concentrated form. The Gu
ID tivation is being rapidly extended t
various attitudes up to 1900 feet.
In Australia the lime is cultivate
to small extent, and appears
Z thrive almost anywhere, when IT,
thermometer does not fall below 2
S. deg. The varieties as known theI
are the lemon lime, the Bergamo
the Mela Rose, and the small Maple
g lime They are found on the Bit
Mountains and on the table lands {
F. the New England district in Ne
South Wales.
IA Lines of an inferior quality al
grown to a small extent in Californ
which realize 81 to So for large, al
80 cents for small boxes.
The writer suggests that the e.
tensive cultivation and enormoI
production of oranges in Calitorni
Florida, the West Indies, Mexico al
Central America renders the guilty
ton of that fruit at this dstan
80 from the market, of doubtful prof
and that lands suitable for t
J, orange could be cultivated with tt
3. lime with more certainty of profit.
Though lines are produced he
all the year round, there is cel ia
season of about three or four mont
when they are more abundant al
sell readily in Honolulu for 90 Gel
per 100. In scarce seasons they a
worth S. per 100, and in such q
mand that there Is a conslderal
import of Mexican lines from Ca
fornia. A trial shipment OF abo
10000 lines received this month
steamer from Samoa sold readily
dealers at 80 cents per 100 and ga
such satisfaction that Samoa will
future be called upon monthly
supply portion OF the requlreme
of this city in the way of lin
80 This, in face of The fact that we hi
beneath and above us, the soil a
the climate eminently suited to
- growth of the lime, whereby