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instead of fire directly applied to the pans. This method is de- 

 sirable in the more delicate kinds of fruit, such as the apricot 

 and peach, but it should not be necessary in the guava if sufficient 

 care is taken. As a rule a small quantity of water, varying with 

 the kind of fruit used and which may be easily determined, is 

 added to the pulp to assist in preventing burning. There seems 

 in this proposed industry to be a splendid field for a man of 

 small capital to establish a central jelly factory in Honolulu and 

 to supply it with fruit pulp from a few pulping plants situated in 

 favorable districts. 



PLANTING SEED COCOANUTS. 



The following notes on the preparation of seed cocoanuts for 

 planting from the Report of the Philippine Bureau of x\gricul- 

 ture, are w^orth noting: 



"In preparing nuts for planting the best results have been ob- 

 tained in the following manner The nuts are selected from trees 

 known to be good bearers, bearing not less than 150 nuts per 

 year, these uniform in size, brown in husk, rich in copra, and 

 fully ripe. Fully 98 per cent, thus selected will germinate suc- 

 cessfully. After cutting they should be placed immdiately in 

 the nursery provided (of course, in the shade) on the ground — 

 not hung on poles as the native is said to do. Prior to placing 

 in seed beds, a bit of the husk should be chipped off on one side ; 

 it should then be laid, cut side up, and left to germinate. Xine 

 months usually elapses before they are ready for planting. The 

 nut when placed on end, as is sometimes done, sends out a spind- 

 ling plumule easily broken at the point of protuberance and, at 

 best, never gains the vigor of those germinated according to the 

 method given. Two thousand nine hundred and thirty-one trees 

 have been planted this year, most of them on ground that has 

 been plowed and pulverized and put in the same condition as 

 for a corn crop. The result has been a marvellous growth, the 

 trees being more than twice as large as those left to themselves." 



