PAPAYA CULTURE IK HAWAII 
however, have been known to live for 15 to 20 years and to produce 
satisfactory fruit during a part of this time. (Fig. 6.) 
The foliage of the papaya consists of a crowning cluster of large 
leaves at the terminal of trunk and branches. New leaves are almost 
Figure 3. — A good marketing type of papaya IS 
pounds 
inches lung and weighing about 8 
constantly forming at the top of the cluster, and as the stem shoots 
upward the older leaves mature and fall. This process gives space 
for the developing fruit. The normal period of life of a leaf is 
usually but a few months, depending somewhat upon the rapidity 
