Paw Paws Grown In Onerahi Garden
Tropical fruit has been grown and ripened in a garden at Onerahi. The fruit is a delicately flavoured pay/, paw which grows abundantly in Fiji and other South Sea islands.
The trees have large leaves and these provide a certain amount of shade for the fruit which grows from the bottom of the final leaf stem and extends down the trunk for a short distance. The fruit furthest down is tire first to ripen and once a paw paw tree commences to bear it nearly always has at least one fruit coloured bright yellow.
The Onerahi-grown paw paw. samples of which have been placed on display in the main window of the Northern Advocate, are well formed. and although smaller than the majority of island-grown' fruit, are well up to standard in other respects. The paw paw’s flavour is somewhat like a rock-melon, but is, if anything, slightly more delicate.
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Northern Advocate, 9 January 1948, Page 2
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156Paw Paws Grown In Onerahi Garden Northern Advocate, 9 January 1948, Page 2
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