N.I. Passion Fruit.
p. 50 · Read in the full issue
Big Order from Melbourne.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Norfolk Is., Nov. 10.
THE Planters’ Association of Norfolk Island has just sold in advance 20 tons of passionfruit pulp to a well known Melbourne firm at seven pence per pound. The firm is prepared, also, to take any further amount up to a total shipment of a hundred tons.
This looks as though Norfolk Island passion fruit were at last coming into its own and this happy issue to our long fight to attain recognition of our claim to special consideration is undoubtedly due, in great measure, to the promin ence and publicity accorded the island by the P.I.M.
It is only a matter of time and oppor tunity, also, till the size and flavour of our guavas—both blue and yellow—and their fitness for treatment become known and they, too, are eagerly sought.
They grow wild all over the island and towards the end of the fruiting season, the scent of the fallen, rotting fruit ren ders whole neighbourhoods heady and intoxicating.