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valuable and distinctive native varieties will attain a place among 

 the important exports of the mid-Pacific. Certainly the cooking- 

 bananas have open before them a field free from competition, 

 and interesting to contemplate from the standpoint of the Amer- 

 ican dietary. The Hawaiian canned pineapple has developed 

 for itself a phenomenal market, perhaps the native banana will 

 eventually do the same. 



