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it is mentioned in the time of Yu, who may have been a coteni- 

 porary of Noah. The Amoy grown fruit is most highly valued 

 and has pulp red as a ripe watermelon, and as attractive in taste 

 as in looks. The name Grape Fruit was given to a smaller variety 

 from the West Indies by Boston marketmen from its resemblance 

 and taste to the Malaga grape, which was formerly imported in 

 great quantities into Boston. Excellent Grape Fruit has been 

 raised here, almost as fine as some from southern California. 

 Pumeloes also do well here, but in some cases the tree dies young 

 after a few crops. Those at the Lunalilo Home, planted by Judge 

 Dole, are of good age and show no signs of failure ; the fruit is 

 of good quality. 



Three fruits belonging to this same orange family should be 

 tried here if this has not already been done; they are the three 

 following : 



^gle marmelos, the Beal or Beel. The fruit is green outside, 

 yellow inside and very delicious when ripe. Mr. Jared Smith 

 assures me that he has seen this fruit here. 



Cookia or Clansena punctata, the Wampu of China, where it is 

 a popular fruit, although small. 



Glycosmis citrifolia, also a small but well flavored fruit. 



Of the family of Rhamnaceae, not noted for its edible fruits, 

 we have one species grown here, but which is made little use of 

 as a fruit. I refer to the Jujube or Zkyplms jiijuha, a handsome 

 tree, not uncommon in gardens, with a small green fruit like a 

 crab apple. This is seldom eaten raw, but yields the paste of the 

 confectioners. Worth cultivating for ornament or for the wood 

 which is hard and valuable. 



Vitis innifera. I do not know what variety of the grape Manini 

 the Spaniard cultivated for the wine he made in early days, but I 

 suppose it to have been the Mission grape as that flourished here 

 in the early sixties and I have had fine bunches from the Princess 

 Victoria's place on the Queen street shore, as it was then. They 

 were also growing on the Knudsen place on Kauai. At present the 

 Isabella seems to have driven out all others, although a few years 

 ago my old friend Gonsalves, the Portuguese gardener, brought 

 me a splendid bunch of Tokay, sweet and well colored. 



Cupania sapid a, of the family Sapindaceae, usually called Akee 



