Medford mail tribune., April 20, 1956, Image 17

Is That So?
Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Wai-
kiki Beach, Hawaii How the
subject got around to pineapples,
I'll never know. But there we
were. To my left, was my host,
Joe Filoni, manager of the hotel,
serving up his own concoction,
sliced fresh pineapple sweetened
with brown sugar and splashed
with Kirschwasser; to my right,
enthusiastically demanding a
third helping, Dick Macfarlane,
the pineapple-eatingest man
and you might have guessed it,
Hawaiian Pine's praise agent.
As I say, the subject got
around to pineapples. Dick was
saying: "Less than 55 years ago,
Jim Dole sold his first canned
pineapple in the U. S. and now
today Hawaii is selling more
than 70 per cent of the world's
pineapples. Right now, if you
were to go out and make a
count, you'd find more than 1,
100,000,000 plants growing in
Hawaii's rich soil . . ."
"Shhh. Not so loud, Dick," I
cautioned. "It smacks of monop
oly . . ." Secretly, then and there
I resolved to do something about
. it. To draw out the information
k' wanted, I cagily asked: "Dick,
tell me, where could a man get
some seeds . . ."
He shook his head. "Sorry,
we don't sell seeds even if we
wanted to. You see, a pineapple
that goes to seed is no good
too seedy and stringy. In fact,
we discourage pollination. That
is why hummingbirds have been
banned . . ."
"What's a little hummer got
to do with the sex life of pine
apples?" I demanded.
Not Nativa lo Hawaii
"Plenty. Hummingbirds and
other nec r-sucking birds are
about the only creatures able
to pollinate the pineapple. For
tunately, they are not native
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With some difficulty I got him
back on the main track. "But
how would I go about growing
a pineapple without seeds?"
"The simplest way would be
to go to your green grocer and
get yourself a ripe pine. Then
twist out the crown from the
pineapple you bought. Strip off
the lower leaves. These exposes
the tiny root structure which
exists in every crown. Place the
base of the crown in a jar of
water, and in a couple of weeks,
the roots should appear."
I tried not to show my eager
ness. "Then, pot the crown. Take
a pretty good-sized pot. Look for
the plant to grow to be about
18-30 inches tall, making a hand
some crown of long slender
pointed leaves.
"I'd say, use soil on the acid
side, that's better than alkaline.
It should be porous and well
drained, otherwise the roots are
prone to rot. Use ordinary gar
den fertilizer. Don't water by
soaking the plant that will
drown the roots. Better do as
we do in the fields no irriga
tion ditches, you know, we use
overhead sprinklers.
"It'll do best at a temperature
right around between 75 and 85.
'Bud' Will Appear
"After about 20 months, the
first 'bud' will appear, and each
of its 'eyes' will have a tiny
red blossom, one at a time until
the whole fruit has blossomed."
I asked: "How many fruits to
the plant?"
"Each plant bears only one
fruit at a time, about one year
after the first fruit has been
picked, a second one will be
ripe, and so on at yearly inter
vals. However, the fruit gen
erally gets progressively smaller
each year. After the fourth or
fifth crop, you'll want to start
with a new crown . . ."
Apparently, he got Joe Fil
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Ogden, Utah (U.P.) Fourteen
men, armed with spray gun's
and needles, are about halfway
through their unique project of
pickling 100 railway locomotives
at the Army's Utah General
Depot here.
The pickling cocooning, the
Army calls it is designed to
preserve the valuable engines
in standby condition so they
could quickly be used by the
military services again in time
of future emergency.
The locomotives range in size
from short, 45-ton, 300-horse-power
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my greedy look. "But look, why
should I, a Hawaiian pineapple
man, tell you how to grow pine
apples." Then came the dawn,
like thunder. "Hey, what am I
saying? Telling a columnist how
to grow pineapples in every
American home. . . "
"At any rate, after I tell my
story you can't be sued for mon
opoly. . ."
"Know of any jobs, maybe
something like writing a col
umn. Why not one on how to
grow sugar cane in your gar
den. . . ."
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