The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-09
pINEArrLns GROWN N CUBA.
Pronounced the Hest and Are Very
Easily Produced.

| Pronounced the Hest anu are very
Easily Produced.
Nowhere Oh the globe So pineapples
thrive as IN Eastern Cuba, where the con-
d tons OF soil and climate bring "the geld
en- apes OF Hssperides to absolute per-
fection yst tho pineapple industry has
disper had much attention in this section.
says correspondent of the Prov idenee
Jc.rnal. Here is another chance for the
enterpris.ng Yarkee. A tract OF unoccupie1
land, extending far as one can see, may be
bought for few dollars ans turned into a
fruit farm, the virgin soil OF unparalleled
richness being capable of producing every.
tropical growth. Shipping facilities are al
ready established at Baracoa and several
small ports, and Il the land touches the
IGmuri or some other river, 80 much the
better for its owner. Until one has seen the
got5en glory OF Il pineapple plantation. he
can thfak of no more attractive sight than
a sugar cane field, glistening pale yellow
under the torrid sun an3 billowirg III the
gsntlo breeze like wind sweep sea But
even more fascinating liz a field of pines
each great apple guarded by circle of
glittering. sharp edged bdycnets.' In Flor
iaa he pineapple leaf is so sharply ser
rated that the thought of getting around
among them suggests a field OF torturc
Evolution seams to have progrcssel furth-
eli in Cuba, fer in the olacr AMI more
carefully cultivated Plantations the saw
teeth that edge the itAlg pointed leaves
haye manly disappeared.
Before tho war 1t ws5 the sight Of a litS-
time 10 go cut to Marianao. n suburb OF
Havana. and there drive through an cs-
tate which had 10000 pineapple plants in
fiji bearing. over in Nassau they call
gtc pine plantations groves" and or
chatJs, us il they were trees, Whether
groves or fields. the plant is about tina
same. producing one of the most lusciou3
ard popular fruits known to man. for
which tho re is constant and ample demand
Like mcst things worth having in this
troubled life, the golden pines are lot
easy 10 get at. a very short stroll among
the stipsing leaves will lead you to sym
ylatttze with the New Yorker who. after
the first visit to Marianao, said You Go
not mind the fret 200 or 800 sticks and
prods from the needle points of the bayonet
leavee as you cross a field, but after awhile
your tortured cults can endure no moro.
and your remarks about the pineapple crop
are likely TO he preimdiced by present sore
reiss. How much nicer it would be If the
apples really did grow in orchards anil
you could send 2 colo1 ed 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 thrusbs itself upward in elhe mid
die of a mass Of long. narrow and sharp
arched leaves spreading forth from CEN
trail stalk precisely like those of the
Agave Americana, or Century plant, with
which everybody is familiar The stem
is perhaps eighteen inches to Two feet in
height.
The same plant produces a second apple,
and "a third apple, and so on through sew
eral bearings; after which new plant
must be started from the Clip Nothing
is easier of cultivation or requires less
capital and previous experience, and few
crops bring in greater or more certain re-
turns