Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . t, the are several varieties growing wild in Cuba and culti-vation greatly improves them. The fruit grows out of abunch of great leaves, eighteen inches or two feet from theground. Each plant bears one apple weighing from one tofour or five pounds. The fruit stem matures in about eight-een months from planting, bears one apple, and will bearan apple annually after that for three or four yea
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . t, the are several varieties growing wild in Cuba and culti-vation greatly improves them. The fruit grows out of abunch of great leaves, eighteen inches or two feet from theground. Each plant bears one apple weighing from one tofour or five pounds. The fruit stem matures in about eight-een months from planting, bears one apple, and will bearan apple annually after that for three or four years. Theplant is raised from slips. Pineapples are chiefly grown inthe Isle of Pines and Western Cuba. This latter section,however, takes the lead in all fruit-growing. Thirty-twothousand pineapples were shipped from Banes in 1894. Asyet the Cuban pineapple is a weak competitor of theBahama fruit. As may be readily seen, fruit-raising in Cuba is yet in itsinfancy, and inasmuch as there is no serious competitor inthe American market, save Florida and Porto Rico, there isno reason why the future development should not be of thevastest proportions. Since the great frost in Florida, which. Timber and Fruit Trees 349 killed out the orange trees and slaughtered fruit and vege-tables generally, that garden spot has become more or lessunreliable; and as Cuba has never known a killing frost, isnot much farther from the markets than Florida, and haswater communication from all points, it must be acceptedthat Cuba will control the future fruit supply of this country,and American capital will not be slow to avail itself of theopportunities offered. Authorities differ as to the introduction of coffee, whichis not indigenous to Cuban soil. One sets the date as 1742,and asserts that the plant was imported from Haiti; anothersays it came in 1709 from Martinique; but, whenever it came,coffee culture grew at once into a flourishing industry, andin time Cuban coffee ranked with the best in the wor
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