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ary I have to report the arrival of fourteen steamships and sail- 

 ing vessels from outside the Territory. 



We found thereon five thousand four hundred and three 

 (5,403) packages of fruits and vegetables, twelve (12) cases, 

 boxes and bales of trees and plants and seven (7) packages by 

 mail. 



In my last report to you I should have stated that on January 

 9th, Mr. George Compere, beneficial insect collector for the State 

 of California, passed through Honolulu on the S. S. "Sierra" 

 from Australia on his way to San Francisco, after having visited 

 the Orient. He was rushed for time, but I made it m.y duty to 

 drive him through Honolulu and its suburbs, calling his attention 

 to our most serious introduced insect pests, so that should he find 

 either in his future travels he can make a search for their natural 

 checks. In correspondence with Mr. Ellwood Cooper, the Chief 

 of the California Horticultural Commission, he promised to fur- 

 nish this Board with colonies of parasites of the "purple scale." 

 Mr. Compere requested me to prepare a few orange trees by 

 establishing them in boxes or tubs and thoroughly infesting them 

 with the follovv'ing scale insects — one species to each tree — "Pur- 

 ple scale" (Lepidosaphes bcckii), the "Florida red scale" (Chry- 

 soinplialus Hens) and the "black parlatoria" (Parlatoria zizyphtis) 

 are all very troublesome upon citrus and various other trees on 

 these Islands and are comparatively harmless to such trees in 

 China. Mr. Compere is now on his way to Southern Europe 

 in quest of beneficial insects for California and afterwards will 

 visit China, when we can forward the infested trees. In this 

 way we will be more successful in introducing the parasites, 

 rather than undertaking their importation on detached branches 

 in cold storage. The growing tree system I successfully used a 

 few years ago in sending internal parasites (Scutellista cyanea) 

 from California to Western Australia, after several attempts had 

 been made in the old way by sendings from California and Cape 

 Colony. I specially called his attention to that serious pest, the 

 "Avocado pear scale" (Pseudococciis nipae) and hope he may 

 succeed in finding its enemy in his travels. 



On January i8th a wardian case of economic plants arrived ex 

 S. S. "Mongolia" from India via Hong Kong, but they were all 

 dead, probably from cold weather encountered on the voyage near 

 Japan. On the same steamer there arrived forty-four (44) 



