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Some of the rarer fruits such as the watermelons, custard ap- 

 ple, loquat, soursop, ohelo berry, grenadilla and others could be 

 grown to good advantage. 



The fruits I have enumerated are all well, or fairly well known. 

 There are many more that have been experimented with and 

 proven a success, for instance, the mangosteen, the durian 

 and the roselle. 



Gradually I believe the thought of my paper will be achieved 

 as it is very slowly being achieved. As with the pineapple so 

 also with many of our fruits, one would not need to depend en- 

 tirely upon shipping the ripe fruits as they are for profit, but many 

 of them could be made into dehcious preserves, jams, jellies, etc. 

 Of late years papaya orchards have been started and one can pur- 

 chase that fruit at any time in the market but, as is the trouble 

 with most of the fruits, they are picked too green and allowed to 

 ripen in the market. This destroys their delicate flavor and in- 

 stead of tourists discovering what delicious fruits we have here 

 they wonder anyone can enjoy them. 



Already the mango is being made into chutney for export, the 

 papaya and Chinese orange into marmalade for local use, and the 

 guava into jams and jelly. This is a beginning but it should 

 grow till we can all invariably enjoy food fruits on our tables 

 and plenty of them and also until they are made to give many 

 in this country a 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 Hawaii 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 atmosphere 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 better 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'=^malihini and kamaaina thoroughly 

 familiar with the way to prepare and eat our fruits in order to 



*Note: 'new-comer' and 'resident. 



