The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-15
Pronounced d Isest and Are Yer.
Easily Produced.

Pronounced the Hest and Are Very
Easily Produced.
Nowhere on the globe do pineapples
thrive as in Eastern Cuba, where the
conditions Of soil and climate bring
the golden apples OF Hesperides' 10
absolute perfection; yet the pineapple
industry has never had much atten-
ton in this section. says a correspond
cnt Of the Providence Journal. Here
is another chance for the enterprisins
Yankee. a tract OF unoccupied land.
extending as far as one can see, may be
bought for a few dollars and turned
into a fruit farm. the virgin soil of an
paralleled richness being capable of
producing every tropical growth. Ship
ping facilities are already established
at Baracoa and several small porte
and II the land touches the umu or
some other river. 80 much the better
for its owner. Until n has seen the
golden glory OF a pineapple plantation,
he can think OF no more attractive
sight than a sugar-cane field, glistsn-
ing pale yellow under the torrid sun
and billowing in the gentle breeze X
a wlnd-swept sea. But even more fas-
chatting Is a field of pines. each .greac
apple" guarded by a circle of glitter
ing, sharp-edsed bayonets. In Florida
the pineapple leaf Is so sharply serrated
that the thought Of getting around
among them suggests a field q torture.
Evolution seems tn have progressed
further in Cuba. for in the older and
more carefully cultivated plantations.
the saw teeth that edge the long point
ed leaves have mainly disappeared.
Before the war IL was the sight OF a
lifetime to go out to Marianao. a SUBJ
urb Of Havana. and there drive through
an estate which had $4,000 pineapple
plants in full bearing. over in Nassau
they call the pine plantations groves
and orchards as IL they were trees.
whether groves or fields. the plant Is
about the same. producing one of the
most lucious n popular fruits known
to man, for which there Is constant
ard ample demand. Like most things
worth having in this troubled life. the
golden 'pines'' are not easy TO get at.
A very short stroll among the singing
leaves will lead you TO sympathize
with the New Yorker. who, after a visit
10 Marianne. said: You do not mind
the first 200 or 300 sticks and prods
from the needle points Of the bayonet
leaves as you cross a field. but after a
while your tortured cults can endure
no more. and you remarks about the
pineapple crop are likely 10 be preju-
diced by present soreness. How much
nicer IL would be IL the apples really
did grow i'm orchards and you could
send a colored boy up the trees. to
shake down a few and then could sit
down in the shade and eat them"
A plant produces only one pine at .
time. The fruit thrusts itself upward
In the middle OF a mass Of long. narrow
and sharp arched ave spreading
forth from a central stalk. precisely
like those Of the Agave Americana. or
century" plant. with which everybody
Is familiar. The stem Is perhaps Is
inches to two feet In height.
The same plant produces a second ap-
pie. and a third. and so on through
several bearings: after which a new
plant must he started from the slip"
Nothing is easier Of cultivation or re-
qulres less capital and previous expert
ence. and few crops bring in greater or
more certain returns.