PINEAPPLE
Reading edition
Pineapple was first introduced to the islands by a counselor to King Kamehameha the Great in 1813. Today's industry got its greatest impetus from Captain John Kidwell, an English horticulturist who searched the world for a pineapple variety that would be most suitable to Hawaii. The Jamaican variety known as the Smooth Cayenne which he introduced is still the predominant strain grown in Hawaii.
In 1899 a young New Englander, James B. Dole, built a cannery next to pineapple growing on his own lands in Wahiawa on Oahu. The first year's output in 1903 was 1800 cases. Today the Dole company packs this amount in just a few minutes.
Pineapple takes nearly two years of careful tending before it matures. Then each low-growing plant yields only one fruit. A year later the same plant will produce one or two more pineapples; then the whole process must be repeated.
At harvest time, pickers move through the fields placing the fruits on long-armed conveyors, a process which at the peak of the season continues on into the night with the help of lighted booms.
Only those who have tasted a field-ripened Hawaiian pineapple know what real pineapple is all about. The airport is full of enlightened visitors who are taking cartons of these succulent fruits home with them.
Hawaii produces 45% of the total world production of pineapple.
OAHU
WAIKIKI
Major hotels
1 Ala Moana 2 Aloha Surf 3 Ambassador 4 Breakers 5 Cinerama Edgewater 6 Cinerama Reef 7 Cinerama Reef Towers 8 Coral Reef 9 Coral Seas 10 Hale Koa 11 Halekulani 12 Hawaii Dynasty 13 Hawaiian Regent 14 Hilton Hawaiian Village 15 Holiday Inn 16 Holiday Inn 17 Holiday Isle 18 Hyatt Regency Waikiki 19 Ilikai 20 Ilima 21 Imperial Hawaii 22 Kaimana Beach 23 Marine Surf 24 Miramar 25 Moana 26 Outrigger 27 Outrigger East 28 Outrigger Surf 29 Outrigger West 30 Pacific Beach 31 Pagoda 32 Park Shore 33 Princess Kaiulani 34 Queen Kapiolani 35 Reef Lanais 36 Royal Hawaiian 37 Sand Villa 38 Sheraton Waikiki 39 Surfrider 40 Travelodge 41 Waikiki Beachcomber 42 Waikiki Circle 43 Waikiki Gateway 44 Waikiki Grand 45 Waikiki Marina 46 Waikiki Resort 47 Waikiki Surf 48 Waikiki Surf East 49 Waikiki Surf West 50 Waikiki Village 51 Waikikian
HONOLULU
Points of interest
1 King Kamehameha Statue 2 Iolani Palace 3 Iolani Barracks 4 State Capitol Building 5 Hawaii State Library 6 Honolulu Hale (City Hall) 7 Mission Homes 8 Kawaiahao Church 9 Honolulu Academy of Arts 10 Neal Blaisdell Center 11 Aloha Tower 12 Falls of Clyde 13 Chinatown 14 Cultural Plaza 15 Kwan Yin Temple 16 Foster Botanic Garden 17 National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific 18 Queen Emma's Summer Palace 19 Alice Cooke Spaulding House 20 University of Hawaii 21 East-West Center 22 Paradise Park 23 Waioli Tea Room 24 Dole Cannery 25 Bishop Museum
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