Re: Bluefield Banana Variety (Hawaii)?
The book doesn't give references and is designed to be consumer friendly and only has minimal endnotes. It was introduced in 1903 by a agriculturalist at the Territorial Board of Agriculture and Forestry in Hilo, with 130 corms brought in the next year. While Dwarf Cavendish was grown, the book states that Williams was brought here in 1954 and became the predominant replacement for GM groves that were decimated around 1950, although there were signs of Panama Disease by 1911 here. Cultivation was under 500 acres by 1969, mostly not on Oahu.
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