The Plant World 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY 



Official Organ of 

 The Wild Flower Preservation Society 



of America 



Vol. VII NOVEMBER, 1904 No. 11 



Extracts from the Note-Book of a Nat- 

 uralist on the Island of Guam.— XXIV.* 



By William E. Safford. 



Monday, May 28. — We have suffered a violent storm, which has 

 stripped off all the coconuts and breadfruit, and most of the cacao. The 

 coffee has also been injured and many trees are now leafless or have their 

 foliage blasted as though by fire. The wind began to blow very hard last 

 Saturday night. Yesterday it had increased in force, and Susana went 

 out and cut off all the banana leaves to save the plants in my garden. 

 She says the fruit will ripen without the leaves. Reports have come in 

 from all the districts of the island, stating that many houses have been 

 blown down or unroofed, chickens have died from exposure, the young 

 corn has been blasted and the rice fields of Merizo are ruined. At Inarahan 

 the three bridges have been swept away by freshets and the tribunal, 

 school-house, and rectory unroofed. The U. S. S. Brutus, at anchor in 

 the harbor, was swept from her moorings and carried up on the edge of 

 the reef. Fortunately she was not seriously injured, and no lives were 

 lost. 



Among the structures blown down in Agafia was the frame-work of a 

 house which a man recently arrived from Hawaii was erecting. This 

 morning I met his wife, a native of Honolulu. She seemed very much 

 discouraged. The couple have three little children. The man is a native 

 of this island who went to Honoluhi several years ago on a whaler and 



* Continued from the October issue. Begun in September, 190a. 



