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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF ENTOMO- 



EOGV. 



March 7, 1906. 

 Board of Commissioners of 



Agriculture and Forestry 

 of Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — Since my report to you, dated February 7th, T 

 have the following- additional agricultural, horticultural quaran- 

 tine work made by Mr. Austin and me. During the above stated 

 time we have visited thirty (30) steamships and sailing ves- 

 sels entering this port from outside the -Territory, on whicli we 

 have found seventeen (17) cases and boxes of trees and plants and 

 two (2) bales of trees and six thousand six hundred and ninety- 

 two (6692) packages of fruits and vegetables, principally from 

 the coast. Forty-three packages of plants and seeds by mail. 

 The tree imports consisted of orange, leiiicn, grape-fruit and 

 lime, on which we found a few larvae of "black scale" (Saissctia 

 olcac) and "cottony cushion scale" {Icerya piirchasi). The trees 

 were thoroughly funmigated with hydrocyanic acid gas. In de- 

 ciduous trees was one large case of peach and plum trees from 

 Florida, two trees were attacked by the Eastern "peach root 

 borer," Acgcria c.vitiosa, which we dug out and have in the oftice 

 as exhibits. ( )ne bundle of live plum trees wxre found to be 

 affected with a fungus disease attacking the twigs, which were 

 confiscated. In fruit we returned six cases of grape fruit infeste^l 

 with Lcpidosaplics bcckii ; we destroyed by burning ten boxes' of 

 apples badly attacked by "apple scab fungus" (E:i^ich7diHn' 

 dcntviticiiin) . One basket of oranges from Pago Pago was not 

 permitted to come ashore. One rose bush by mail was badly af- 

 fected with a fungus disease. The owner was notified, after 

 viewing it she consented to its destruction by burning. Three (3) 

 large cases, one thousand ( looo) plants of New Zealand flax 

 plants (Phoniiiuiii fciia.v) were imported and each individual 

 plant carefully examined and then fumigated with hydrocyanic 

 acid gas, the cases and packing were also fumigated ; we did not 

 find any insects or disease. This is a fiber plant and quantities 

 of the fiber in bales is brought on each steamer from New Zealand 

 entering San Francisco. Mr. Byron O. Clark of Wahiawa, in- 

 tends testing it to see if it cannot be profitably grown on these 



