Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — The World’s Largest Orchard. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Largest Orchard.

In the wild district between Hana and Haiku during July and August the most beautiful ana largest apple orchards in the world cun bo seen. The Wilderness of Koolan, us the district is called, contains u forest of native wild apple trees, Countless in number, stretching from the sea fur up the mountain sides. The trees vary from forty to fifty feet in height, and in the harvest season, from July to September, aro loaded down with fruit, some white, but mostly rod. A person standing in the midst of this orchard can look around him for miles, up the mountains and towards the road, and the only thing in view will bo ouo vast grove of apple trees literally rod with ripe and ripening fruit, the branches of the trees bending to the ground with the bounteous harvest. The crop of this extensive apple orchard which nqture planted in the solitary waste would fill a tieot of 100 steamers. The orchard stretches over a country from five to ten miles wide by twenty miles long, and many of the larger trees bear at least fifty barrels apiece The fruit is delicious for table use and will appease both thirst and hunger, but as yet no one has taken the trouble to make any commercial use of the apples. When ripe they will not keep more than a week, but. they make excellent jolly and jam, and simply for the luck of a little American enterprise millions of barrels of apples uro permitted annually to full to the ground and rot.—[Honolulu Letter.