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is liable to be overturned by the winds, or too thick, as 
it then grows tall and spindly, and bears poorly. 
The exports of coconuts from Belize during six years 
previous to 1882, as given by Mr. Morris, 1 are shown 
thus: — 
1876 . . 
. . 381,000 
1879 . . 
, . 919,000 
1877 . . 
. . 604,000 
1880 . . 
. . 1,623,000 
1878 . . 
. . 698,000 
1881 . . 
. . 6,047,160 
A remarkable increase, that shows that the profits induce 
more extensive planting. As to the duration of a fruitful 
coconut, I have not sufficient data. I have seen old trees 
on Utila that had been growing less than twenty-five 
years, and I have seen trees still bearing on the shores of 
Hawaii which are distinctly marked with the cannon¬ 
balls Captain Cook’s ships fired at the village of Kaawaloa 
after the great navigator’s tragic death, more than a cen¬ 
tury ago ; and these trees must have been well grown 
at that remote day. I may add that on the Hawaiian 
Group few coconuts bear before they are seven years old, 
— some not until they are fourteen. 
Pineapples. — No systematic cultivation of this most 
delicious fruit has been undertaken in Guatemala, al¬ 
though the wild pines are of good quality. The pina 
de azncar, or sugar-pine, is large (over six pounds), and 
very tender and juicy; but the horse-pine has more 
flavor. On the Chocon plantation the pine-fields planted 
in the lighter soil do very well, but require cleaning 
five times each year. The sprouts from the base of 
the fruit are planted, and after two years the stock has 
spread so as to produce several pines annually. Three 
1 British Honduras, p. 100. 
