Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — The Largest Apple Orchard. [ARTICLE]

The Largest Apple Orchard.

The largest apple orchard in the world is to be seen in the wilderness of Koolau, Maui, one of the Hawaiian islands. The forest is of native wild apple trees, which are countless in number and stretch from the sea far up the mountainside. These trees vary from forty to fifty feet in height, and "during the harvest season they are covered with fruit of white and red colors. For miles around and up the mountain side and toward the seashore are vast groves of these trees. The crop in these apple orchards which nature has planted so generously in this wild and solitary waste, would fill a fleet of a hundred steamers. The orchard stretches over a country from ten to fifteen miles wide and twenty miles long. Many of these trees bear at least,fifty barrels each. The fruit furnishes the traveller excellent recast, appeasing both thirst and hunger. So far as is known, no commercial use can be made of tbe fruit, from the fact that when ripe it c»» not be kept for more than four days.