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ing, layering, planting, tillage, irrigation, fertilization and prun- 

 ing. A practical description of gathering, packing and market- 

 ing the fruit is also given, together with accounts of insects and 

 other diseases and their approved remedies. After treating of 

 the orange ,the lemon, "Pomelos, Gra])cfruits and Shaddocks" 

 and the lime are accorded due notice. The article comprises 

 Bulletin No. 9 of the local experiment station, is illustrated, and 

 should he read hv all who irrow citrus fruits in Hawaii. 



LIZARDS. 



To show how the lizard may he a friend to the apiarist, I will 

 describe a few instances. For two or three months last summer 

 there was a lizard which came into the house regularly between 

 noon and t o'clock to catch flies and ants from the floor. There 

 was a very industrious nest of ants located about 30 feet from the 

 house, which formed a black line of foragers to the porch, and 

 went up one of the porch posts and down a ^yire into our wire- 

 screened safe for fruit. I put tar on the wire, and then they 

 marched in across the kitchen floor to a can of honey that was 

 there for use on the table. Whenever honey was drawn into a 

 dish a little would stick to the cap, and thus attract the ants. I 

 noticed that when the lizard caught a hy, it always turned and 

 picked up from two to four ants, so T made him welcome. At the 

 end of five or six weeks the ants seemed to be entirely cleaned out. 



At another time an open five-gallon can of granulated honey 

 was set on the stove to melt. A coarse cloth was thrown over it 

 to keep robber bees out. The honey boiled up suddenly on one 

 side and oozed through the meshes of the cloth. As I was at the 

 dinner-table at the time, the honey was set off the stove on the 

 floor a few feet from my chair, and about a dozen flies and five 

 or six robber bees pounced upon the oozed honey at once. The 

 lizard came in as usual, and immediately hopped upon the cloth 

 am.ong the bees and flies, and, after catching a dozen flies and not 

 molesting a single bee, it climbed down as quietly as it came in 

 and disappeared out the door. 



Although these lizards eat house-flies and ants, yet they prefer 

 the large flies, spiders, cockroaches, crickets, moths, canker and 

 cut worms, and grasshoppers, all of which T have often seen them 

 catch. — Writer in Gleanings. 



