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THE MANGOSTEEN. 



To the Editor of the Forester and Agriculturalist. 

 Dear Sir : 



It will doubtless be of interest to many of the readers of 

 your paper to learn that another tree of the Garcinia Mango- 

 stana, or true Mangosteen, has been located growing in the 

 gulch near the home of Mr, George Wilcox, at Lihue, Kauai. 

 Not long since Mr. Wilcox sent to me some of its leaves for 

 identification and, although the tree has never fruited there 

 is no doubt in my mind that it is a true mangosteen, and was 

 probably planted at the same time as those now growing in 

 the premises of Mr. Francis Gay of Kauai, and Mrs. Horner of 

 Lahaina, Maui. Yours truly, 



GERRIT P. WILDER. 



OAHU'S FOOD RESOURCES. 



The following from the Pacific Commercial Advertiser of 

 January 31, is of interest as showing the latent possibilities of 

 this island to develop its potential food resources, if subjected 

 to a long period in which it could depend upon no outside 

 supplies : 



"It is not beside the mark to say that if the population jf 

 Oahu were subjected to a blockade, it could keep its market 

 supplied with a larger and fresher variety of food, with th-^ 

 exception of fresh beef, than it has now. In such a case 

 everybody would raise something to eat and make a business 

 of it and Pearl Harbor would be drawn upon, as never before, 

 for fish. Take vegetables, such as the Chinese, Japanese and 

 Portuguese cultivate now; the area of their production woul(i 

 be indefinitely added to. Taro and rice-planting, honey-mak- 

 ing, duck, pigeon, poultry and hog-farming, sheep and cattle- 

 raising on the high hills, banana culture — all these things 

 would be prosecuted with an energy and zeal which would 

 make Oahu the best fed spot of the Pacific. Haphazard 

 methods of production, say in the poultry business, would dis- 

 appear under the system which a common need would impel. 

 Science, released from its sugar studies for the time being, 

 would turn to the eradication of general insect pests ; small 

 manufactures would spring up and we should make condensed 

 milk, conserves, raise and prepare our own tobacco, produce 

 silk, cotton and to s6me extent hempen cloth — perhaps by 

 crude methods, but nevertheless. There is no end to thft 

 things that could be done here to keep the population well 



