M llnMH . 



until they will occupy a tract as wide as the < n>p < -an 1.. \>\ 



bly carried over to the boats, and along the entire length of the 



rivers and lagoons. They will 



source from which supplies of sprouts can be obtained at 

 nal cost, formally \- 



the rapidity of the growth which the fruit i 

 of northern Honduras made, even in the eailier years of i' 

 j-iveii bvanotherextrart from a letter prcvic usly , 

 on page 24. The writer said : 



During the last eighteen month* the trade in tropical fnn- 

 Honduras v.nd the t'nited States has grown t<. a wonderful extent, ;iii<l 

 is const a n 1 1 y ami rapidly increasing. R eferenoe to the consular n 



<f this office will fnveyou many interesting tacts an<l figure- in i 



to our trade with Honduras. In the r> rival- ami 



of American vessels j'ou will find that since the flrstof .Ianuar\ 



the first Of this month. .June, then- have U-en titty-one arrhal- .| Am- 



erican vessel- from port- ot the I'nited States tothi-pnrt of Kn:it:in. 



This (Joes not include the arrivals at Trnxillo. I'urrto Torto and I'tilla. 



whieli ports belong to this consular district, nf the said i 



rivals, twenty-one were steamships and thirty sailing - ': m- 



t ,nok -hows that for the same period, vi/... live moiit hs. -\ port- < t 

 fruit* from tlii- port to the I'nited States ha\ l>e. \\ as foil- 

 Lunches of banana-. l.lXM.iMi cocoanuts, 1,063,000 plantMin-. ' 



;iat- qiiantitiesof pirn-apples, limes. Oranges, mantio*-. tain.; 

 SOUK- Imlia riil.lM-r, sarsa|.arilla, hides. . lmpc.it 



iitc-d States consist Of Hour. pro\ i-i.m-. lumliei-. furnit 

 leum, hardware, boots and shoes, lager i>ei r. toiiact o, dryjj 



(ireat a^- tlie growth of the trade in banan n. it will 



probably be surpassed by that of the tratlic in plantains \\ hen Un- 

 people of the I'nited States shall have had opportuni' 

 the food value of the last named fruit. There are several \ari- 

 eties of the plantains. >.orm- of which are dried and preserved, in 

 whirl) condition they will keep twenty live or tint ' Flour 



from plantains is made into nutritive biscuits. < >f the fresh fruit 

 100 parts contain twenty-seven part*, of dry nutritive matter, or 



;\vo parts less than the potato. A single plant bears from 

 twenty live to ninety pounds of fruit, \\orth $7.. r >ii per 1 

 fruiN. or three-fourths cent each. An re \\ ill i 'ants. 



