The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-06-26
FOR
THE FAIR
Exhibit Is Being
Prepared for
St. Louis.


does not believe that Hawaii will have
an exhibit at the st. Louis Exposition
a visit to the United States Experiment
Station on Punchbowl will convince
him otherwise. In a small building sur
rounded by jars and bottles. and fruits
of every variety, j. E. Higgins, Super
visor of Agriculture in the local
schools, is hard at work preparing an
exhibit for the fair, which will do
more to advertise the islands and en-
courage tourists and settlers to come
magazine articles.
AS far as the products of the soil
are concerned the exhibit to be made
by the United States Agricultural De-
partment will be the most complete
and comprehensive of any sent from
the islands. Hawaii is to have space
ten feet square for her agricultural
products, and it will be filled with the
choicest specimens of island fruits and
flowers and vegetables. This exhibit
is being prepared under the direction
of Special Agent Jared G.. Smith under
instructions from Jas. F. Wilson, Sec
rotary of Agriculture, and it viii have
place in the general exhibit to be
made by the Department.
Mr.. Higgins work has only started.
He began the collection of specimens
on the first of this month and already
has a good nucleus for a fine exhibit
ton. Most of his time so far has been
devoted to mangoes. There are be-
tween forty and fifty varieties of man
goes growing in the Hawaiian Islands,
said Mr.. Higgins yesterday, and he
pointed to the dozen or more Jars al
ready filled with the fruit. The names
of the different varieties are largely in
the air." he continued, there is no
which is reliable, for all
the varieties. We expect to get speci-
mems of all the varieties before we are
done. No. 9 is a variety which came
from Jamaica; there are several vari-
cites of the chutney mango. Some of
them are acid and some are sweet. The
Vanilla mango has somewhat of the
flavor of vanilla. The French mango
which was imported from Jamaica is
of Indifferent flavor. 1t Is too strong.
The common sweet mango is hard to
get in good condition, it Is subject to
the attack of a blight"
Some of the mangoes obtained by Mr..
are too large to go through
the top of a gallon fruit jar, and these
will be sent in kegs to be put in muse
UNI jars at Washington or St. Louis.
Formaln is being used to preserve the
fruits. 1t is said to be better than al
cohol, and preserves fruit colors bet
ter than the old form of preservative.
Mr.. Higgins has also No. and No.
II mango. The latter was imported by
Mr.. Marsden when he was Commits
sioner of Agriculture.
'Our exhibit will include all the pro-
ducts of the islands," said Mr.. Hig-
gins. Most of our work will be done
in Honolulu. for the fruits can be bet
ter packed here than on the other ISL
ands. Still we will not confine our
selves to this island exclusively, and
the other islands will be visited to fill
goes will be most elaborate for that
fruit has been here the longest, and |
here are more varieties. But the exhibit |
Will include everything, pomegran-
ites, alligator pears, yams, coffee,
pCuhSb SiSdi, pdhdidS,
oles, oranges, papaias, in fact every
hing. The alligator pears cannot be
obtained yet, but our exhibit does not
lave to be sent on until October. Most
# the fruit, we pick, just before it is
ipe, 1t has a better color then, and is
asier preserved.
Yes, We will send big assortment
# oranges. There are some fine Gran
res here, and they are of good flavor.
If course there are none that would
axe the place of the navel orange in
he markets OF the world, but lit is
My because the oranges here lack cul-
ivation and care and plant breeding
We can produce Just as good an orange
s the navel here. The Hawaiian
range is juicy and of fine flavor and
With care fruit for export could be
btained."
Most OF the fruit Is being packed in
,allon jars, though some is put in
mailer Jars. So far the work OF Mr.
Higgins has been confined almost ex-
lusively to the mango, though all of
he island fruits are to be included. Y
ir, Higgins has fine specimen Of the
nina orange which was obtained from
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