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nor as large in number as from fields in which the phi: 



ther apart, and in which $25 to $:io p r acre is spent per annum 



in cultivation. 



The usual price for common pineapples on the Hon.: 

 coast is six and one-fourth cents e:u h. The large, sweet sugar 

 pines will bring at least ten to fifteen cenK ea< h when MI; 

 in quantities, great enough to make it an object to keep them 

 separate from the others in handling. A crop of 4,000 pines at 

 six and one-fourth cents will bring $240, a net profit of fully 

 $200 per acre. If the plants are only eighteen incho apai - 

 should yield at least 10,000 saleable fruits for the .sixteen to 

 teen months, worth $625, of which $575 should be net gain which 

 is equal to $385 for a year, per 



Oranges are grown here in profusion, with n> can-. Tin- 

 trees are seedlings, untrimmed, and the ground they stand on is 

 never cultivated the truth that IK. land ;liivuied ll 



Republic should be kept in mind. Yet most of the orange 

 then- produce good crops of a fair quality and si/e. and 

 yield fruit of exceeding sweetness, and larger than the average 

 of oranges offered in northern markets. 



A great variety of indigenous and other fruits can he <rrown 

 in Honduras, and be profitably sent to foreign markets in a fresh, 

 or in some preserved form. To th-.x now grown may be added, 

 with little labor or expense, apricots, plum- almonds, 



olives, figs, dates, walnuts, etc. These will source of 



dailv and very large income tocultivators of the Ian-. litia. 



In " Notes on Honduras," Squire gives a partial 1M .f in.; 

 nous fruits of this region. On page 182 In 



Apart IP. in tli.- lime, lemon. >, -jinjf.-. ami palm trees. thi>i<> tsa great 

 variety of trees ln-arin^ innt- wliich 



aeao is one of these, a .n.iant <>n tin- north- 



ern alluvions, when? the natives draw th< ; plie< iron 



forest*. It is known there as the cacao mi< <>. tn..nk \ r wii<! cacao, 



r.rnl i 'i.-.J In, MI tin- OH I nut*., 



' I- < -lalllie.J, a III |.IMientii-tl. :-*.eniillrHf 



the Jamaica *'allploe" (My rtus Pimenta), is al.no in<b win, u- 



