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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Round Amini bore an enormous crop 
of most beautiful fibreless fruit last 
year, as heavy a load as any turpentine 
seedling, apricot yellow with carmine 
cheeks, but this year, owing to dry 
weather, it is late in putting out, and 
owing to this fact has at present writ¬ 
ing not blossomed. Many trees of 
other varieties are in the same posi¬ 
tion, and while many are loaded with 
half grown fruit some have not as yet 
blossomed, but may still bloom and 
produce a late crop. Avocadoes made 
a good crop last year and indications 
are that they will do as well this sea¬ 
son. Prices for late varieties were 
quite up to the standard last fall, and 
the demand for Trapp trees for plant¬ 
ing far exceeds the supply. California 
is getting to work in earnest on Avo¬ 
cado culture, and many buds of the 
Trapp have been sent there by mail, 
though the laws will not permit the 
entrance of any nursery stock from 
Florida. 
As to the pineapple industry, it 
seems likely that it has now reached 
the rock bottom of the late depression 
caused by a combination of poor sea¬ 
sons, overproduction of small fruit, and 
West Indian competition. Perhaps 
25 or 30 per cent, of the former acreage 
has been maintained (discouraged 
growers having abandoned their fields) 
and the acreage which has still been 
kept up will this year produce a good 
crop of first class fruit, and it will 
come at a time when the foreign crop 
will be out of our way, and undoubted¬ 
ly yield a remunerative revenue. In 
future, intensive culture and reduced 
acreage will undoubtedly put this in¬ 
dustry on its feet once more, for Cuban 
competition has felt the same disaster 
of over production, and fields have been 
abandoned there just as much as here. 
PINEAPPLES IN HAWAII. 
C. G. White. 
Mr. President and Members of the Flor¬ 
ida Horticidtural Society : 
My experience with pines is of six 
years length, and in this locality. This 
region will turn out about 120,000 cases 
of canned pineapple this year. 
I have about 35 acres planted, about 
10,000 plants per acre: good to run 20 
tons of fruit per acre or better, weighed 
without tops. Some acres have gone 
as high as 30 tons, and one year my 
average was 25 tons. This statement 
applies only to the first two crops of a 
planting. Such yields are made in no 
other locality in the islands. 
The variety planted is the Smooth 
Cayenne. The Red Spanish is hardier, 
but very inferior in quantity and qual¬ 
ity. None of the new hybrids tried so 
far, Matthams, Dade, Eden, Deleciosa, 
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