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FRUIT-GROWING IN HONG KONG.

GREAT VARIETY OF TROPICAL AND, TEMPERATE

FRUITS,

INTERESTING BROADCAST:

The following is the text of broadcast talk by Professor G. A C. Herklots delivered last night:-- The recent publication of a book entitled "Fruits and Fruitculture"

ALK BY PROE HERKLOTS

The Mangoy Pu

wa

early

The Philippine maago, welcome so eagerly in summer months, is only one species

WUCHOW NOTES.

MANCHURIAN REACTION NO PLEASURE FOR 3 DAYS

[From Our Own Correspondent.)

Wronow, Oct. 2. General Wong Shiu Hung Ativ ed Wuchow some time ago, and went to his native villinge Ying- yuen to bury his mother.. He is stil in the country and expects to

in the Dutch East Indies ha of fair-sized genus and moreover come out in a few days:

prompted me to choose this as a sub- jeet for a talk

We are indeed fortunate in Hong Kong in that we are able to obtain

Since the Japanese incidents in Manchuria, local Chinese have been very excited. To mark their views of the matter, the authorities 61 Wuchow gave an order to stop all pleasures and amusements for three. days.

other genert in the same family grow extremely well in Hong Kong but rarely I believe bear good fruit which ripens. It is unlikely that mangoes can ever be grown for fruit in the Colony but the trees aro large, handsome, and well worth growing for their appearance alone, either as shade trees or as avenue ganirations and people will take trees. I believe the Military were the first to bring the Mango tạ Hong Kong and it is likely that seeds or seedlings ware brought from ludia or Malaya rather than

A big demonstration" of sil or

place to-morrow and, a public holi- daylobserved by the whole city.

in the different sonsons, such a great variety of fruita Apples and pears from the west coast of America and Australia, "Sunkist oranges and grape-fruit from Calt fornia and tropical fruits from China, the Philippines, and Malaya all are brought to Hong Kong for our pleasure, and health. Even some of the soft fruits, such strawberries, can be obtained from from the Philippines. The Horse- John Kidwell. Since that date the Wei-hai-wei in June and from mango or Bachang, L. foetida, id fruit has been improved almost bo- Baguio the whole year round and one if the wild mangoos which yond recognition and to day the

can be brought to Hong Kong by ship with the certainty of large propertion remaining sound and

good.

There is, norertheless, no avoid- ing the fact that howover efficient our cold storage conditions may be during the transit on board, ship, the taste of no stored fruit can be compared with the favour of a fruit picked from a tree and eaten in its shade. Compars for example the taste of a Californian apple imported and enter in England with that of a Cox's Orange Pippin eaten in a Dorset or Devon or-

chard; a comparison is impossible, one looks nice but in woolly and flavourless. The other has an in- comparable texture and

Bavour.

grows in Java and Malays; the fruit is not particularly pleasant I tried it first in Kuala Lumpur),

but "more is the crabapple.

The Soursop.

till 1895 by an Englishman, Capt.

pineapple Touks next to sugar cane as the most important agricultural product of the Hawaiian Islanda,

The Hawaiian Islands, or rather some of them, are in the same latitude as Hong Kong and if pine- This fruit in Malaya, is called apples will grow well, in Honolulu. the Durian blando because it bears why not equally well in Hong a superficial, resemblance to the Eong 1 I know perfectly well that Durian. The pulp, which I have

pineapples are grown commercially eaten in Singapore and Manila, is in the New Territories but the cul- somewhat like cotton-wool but the ture of these fruits could be car- juico, if expressed can be made into ried out on a much larger scale and a delicious cooling drink. This. small tres would, I am convinced; better varieties of plants could bo grow in the Colony if it were given employed. I know also thus the

sheltered spot and as I haven Botany and Forestry Department

fem, seedlings to spare. I would has been experimenting with pine- willingly give them to anyone In Java seedlings bear fruit when that Mr. Green, the Superinten willing to make the experiment. apple culture and I think it likely 3 years old.

dent, would be only too willing to put his knowledge at the disposal fof" one who" seriously intended to try out these fruits in the New

"

The Custard Apple.

Chinn and with many is extremely This fruit is grown in South popular. The true is small and can easily be grown from seed. It is collective fruit made up of many fleshy carpela and the pulp su rounding the studs in yellowish white, juicy, and sweet

Imported Fruit This is an extrems example but it serves to emphasise another, fact and that is that fruits grown for the export trade are usually of good shape and colour, of even quality and are good travellers but are not primarily chosen, for their flavour. Strawberries grown in Baguio have not the flavour of English straw Berries, those of Wei-hai-wei are closer to the home product, but carry these a few hundred or thou sand miles and what flavour they Another name for this tree is the do possess will undoubtably have civet-ent tree. Just as anyone who deteriorated to very appreciable goes for a walk on Mount Nicholson extent.

can amell the Hong Kong civet-cat so also anyone who so much as puta his nose inside Penang during the Durian season can smell this pecu liarly offensively scented fruit. A Dutch

1

The Durian,

Of course the reason is that fruits are alive and are breathing just as man, does, though of course to a much lesser extent, by burning up sugars to form carbon dioxide and

name for the fruit is water and small quantities of other Stinkvrucht, I have seen bullock substances. A fruit when ripe is wagon load after load of durians physiologically eld and therefore on the outskirts of George Town; more sensitive to changes in en Penang, and the village streets vironment whether changes be in littered with the rough and spiny temperature or in oxygen and car empty fruit-cases. The 'durian cer- bon dioxiode content of the surtainly would not "grow to produce rounding air. Old and in truth fruit in Hong Kong but I cannot rdying, tissues tend to produce pro resist the opportunity to say a little

́ducta of respiration other than about this fruit, vt by

water and carbon dioxide when environmental conditions are in any way unfavourable and these sub stancea spoil, the favour of the fruit There is no getting away from the fact that the majority of frutite, certainly in the tropics, are most luscious when eaten under the tres on which they were grown.

It is the bril that surrounde the ends in the fruit of the Durian that is eaten just as it is the aril that surrounds the single stone in the Lichce that in regarded as so great a delicacy. This aril has the consistency of thick custard or of ground rice pudding. Ita taste, is

well it depends on whether you This lends me up to the object of like the fruit or not; the first time this talk and that is to encourage I tried the fruit-one seed was residents to attempt to grow more enough, I fancied no I really be varieties of fruits, whether of tem lieved I was eating sweet, bad, gar- perate pr tropical origin, in their lic,

On the second occasion I cardens in Hong Kong and the New managed to ent two seeds nad on Territories

the third ne many as three but every time I had a meal or denok little came the taste of bad garlic. A water during the next 2 days back. friend of mine who eats, the fruit. with gusto, tells me that a beginner should try with really ripe fruit of good quality.

Fruitculture in Hong Kong.

I should like to consider some tropical and temperate fruits and review the feasibility, if any, of their culture in this Colony. Those who have not travelled in the tropies may not know that the num- ber of edible fruits in the equatorial and in the jungle I have seen their Durians grow wild in Malaya belt is legion. Many of these are flowers strewn on the ground, and horrid, to put it crudely, and many on ecension the mature fruits them others will not keep for more than selves. Tigers are said to break open a day on two. It must be remem the fruits and eat the seeds with bered, however, that very little great engerneas, A durian to be crossing and selection of tropical enjoyed fully should be eaten im fruit trees has as yet been gecommediately it is ripe and just after plished and that many fruits at it has fallen from the tres. In the present unpalatable may ma gen- fruit nenson the natives in Malaya eration be improved beyond re- frequently-sleep under the trees sq cognition.

J as not to miss or allow to be stelen. The ancestors of the apple and a fallen fruit. The trees, grow to pear must have been miserable be more than 60 feet in height and fruits, somewhat like the familiar, as the frails weigh several pounds arab-apple in their taste and size it is unwise to rest immediately In the citrus group more selection beneath ripe fruit, otherwise the and breeding has been carried out rest may be prolonged indefinitely

fruit and look at the result, the | sociless pummelp, the grape-fruit and some of the oranges are. amongst our finest fruits. What has been done, with the apple, pear and orange, may some day be done with a score of different tropical fraits

For the sake of convenienos will follow the order given in the booky to waida have already, re

Pineapple

Territories.

Recently I had a talk with one of the leading scientists in Honolulu and he told me that, one of the loading pineapple grow era had told him that in many respects the Hong Kong Now,, Territories, were better suited to the growth of pineapples than Hono Julu This information show third hand but it is worthy of con- sideration.

bought three tins of pineapple Whilst in Amoy this summer T chunks for 60 cents-about five, penor; these had been canned in China. Why should not Hong Kong do likewise and with the cheap and abundant labour avail able, enter into competition with Honolulu and Singapore for sup plying the castern: markets t

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