The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-14

and capital We're invested in some O
our other fruits no doubt we could wiz
a high reputation abroad for our supe-
rior oranges, mangoes. alligator pears
breadfruit, etc.
Some OF. the rare- fruits such as the
waterme.ons. custard apple loquat
soursop. ohe!o berry. grenadilIa and
others could be grown to good advan-
tage
The fruits I have enumerated are al
well. or fairly well known. There are
many more that have been experiment.
ed with and proven 3 success, for in
stance. the rnangosteen, the dorion and
the roseile.
Gradually I believe the thought OF
my paper will be achieved as il is very
slowly being achieved. AS with the
pineapple so also with many of our
fruits. one would not need to depend
entirely upon shipping the ripe fruits
as they are for profit, but many of
them could be made into delicious pre-
serves. jams, jellies, etc. Of late years
papaya orchards have been started and
one can purchase that fruit at any
time in the market but, as is the trou-
BILE with most Of our fruits. they are
picked too green and allowed to ripen
in the market. This destroys their
delicate flavor and instead of tourists
discovering what delicious fruits we
have here they wonder anyone can en-
joy them.
Already the mango is being made in
to chutney for export, the papaya and
Chinese orange into narmalade for To-
cal use. and the guava into jams and
jelly. This is beginning but it
should grow till we can all invariably
enjoy good fruits on our tables and
plenty of them and also until they are
made to give many in this country
good living by the sale Of these put
up in many tempting ways.
Could not the settlers who have land
on the higher elevations help out Ha-
waii as well as themselves by giving
some of their attention to this problem?
Most fruits no doubt would do better
in their cooler and more moist atmos-
phere than they do on the low lands.
OF course the subject will need much
thought and many experiments would
need to be tried, though many have
already been tried at Wahiawa and
other places, so that it might be a
number of years before this would be
accomplished. But. as has been proven
by other fruits. much can be done and
when it is done, Hawaii will be a bet
ter land to live in
After all this is accomplished, one
more point, which to my mind is very
important and which in fact could be
done now to much profit, is to make
both rnalihini and kamaaina thorough
ly familiar with the way to prepare
and eat our fruits in order to most
enjoy them. Take for instance the
and the wifi you insert a fiat
handled nutpick into the stem end of
these fruits so that you have con-
venient way of handling them you no
longer wish you were in a bathtub
While eating them. To those not accus-
eaten with salt only it is very distaste
full, but prepared with vinegar, pepper
and salt becomes palatable. The bread
fruit, if eaten to advantage, must be al |
lowed to so thoroughly ripen that when
handled its sides will dent. And so on |
good and bad ways of preparing them |
Ill of which each housekeeoer and no. /
eel and restaurant manager should |
Srow.
BY means of a booklet, (similar to
his one 1 have on Jamaica, which 1
edge could be easily brought before the
people to the very great advantage of
Hawaii and Hawaifs visitors.