The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-10-26
HAWAIIAN FRUITS
Soil Of the Islands Suitable for
All Kinds Of Vegetables.
EVEN ASPARAGUS AND CELERY
So Department of Agricul.
ture Suggests.
Many Varieties Now Imported May
Be Grown Here With
sss.sss as.sss little Difficulty.
EVEN ASPARAGUS AND CELERY

Following are the points furnished
by the Agricultural Bureau for this
week:
Professor Koebele, the entomologist
has done more for these Islands by
introducing the lady-bug than his sal
ary would amount to for the balance Of
his natural existence, even though he
should live to be a hundred. :.
The prevailing mistakes made by
ma and Hilo, Hawaii, arises from
causes which are more or less within
our own control. Had our Government
established an experiment station on
Hawaii with a competent scientific
chemist at it's head, those mistakes,
as described in -Four Days in the Sad
de- would not have been made. We
would have had more coffee planta-
tions, more taxable property and more
happy planters today. The writer has
urged on the Government the neces-
sity of one or two stations.
The time cannot be far remote when
planters, through their representatives
in the Legislature, will demand such
experiment stations. By such laws and
the undoubted capacity of our soil to
raise coffee and other tropical prod
ucts, the prospects of our small coffee
planters will be rendered brighter
Dairying is one of the most profit
able, and yet one of the most neglect
ed, industries in the Islands,
1t is difficult to treat so wide sub
ject as agriculture, horticulture, vim
ticulture and Horticulture in so short a
space, but as to the similarity of our
soil and climate for diversified agri-
culture, there cannot be doubt.
Citrus fruits grow to perfection on
all these Islands when proper condi-
tions are complied with. Oranges lem
Ons, lines, grapefruit, or pOmolo, will
all prove very profitable for export, as
we'll as for supplying the home de-
mand, mail steamers, men-ofWar and
sailing vessels. They ripen here in the
late summer and fall at a time when
the markets that are supplied by Cali
fornia fruit are bare and the price, as
a rule, high at this season, covering
the holidays, as it does. At the same
time, these products would not come
into competition with the California
product.
The pomolo or e-fruit-th
wonderful citrus fruit grows here to
nnrfoo+inn 4 Of hA
now growing in Mr. Kraft's garden at
Makiki, and are bearing great guam
titles Of fruit, from which he has quite
an income. There is nothing in the
fruit line that has the medicinal quail
tiles of the pomolo. and the demand is
increasing from year to year.
The doctors recommend it for in
digestion and as a tonic. Mr.. Kraft
has sold his crop of pomolo to a Chi
nese physician. 1t is said that he uses
it to alleviate the opium appetite and
as cure for drunkenness. Plant a
few trees. They will increase the value
of your property. Plant an acre OF
more in one of our valleys and you
will have an inheritance that will be
enjoyed more than money
Oranges grow beautifully Mr.. Dill
lingham has a tree in his garden al
Punahou that has hundreds Of oranges
on it. Mr.. Comes, at the same place
has a number of orange trees that
will average 800 fine fruit each.
| Limes-Senator Horner. on Hawaii
received $40 for the product of one lime
| tree marketed in Honolulu. Mr.. Ca
marinos of the California Fruit Mar
Z T-@r r.
| to $3.50 per month for lines We wan
more HOrners on these Islands
| We do not raise citrus fruits enough
| to supply the local demands One gro
| cery firm Iewis & Coz import 10000
| lines from California and Samoa an
nually. Camarinos imports $4,000
| Oranges and lemons are also imported
| in great quantities.
| You can grow all the lines, lemons
oranges and dates imported to Homo