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REPORT ON HORTICULTURAL QUARANTINE IN- 

 SPECTION WORK. 



Honolulu, June 20, 1906. 



To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of 

 Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentlemen : — Owing to the disaster in San Francisco and the 

 consequent interruption in ocean transportation during the past 

 three weeks, besides the fact that May is usually a dull season 

 for the shipment of trees and plants, we have very little to report 

 since your last meeting (May i6th). 



During this time there arrived in port thirty-one (31) steam- 

 ships and sailing vessels from outside the Territory. We found 

 thereon six thousand four hundred and nineteen (6419) packages 

 of fruits and vegetables and seven (7) cases and boxes of trees 

 and plants, besides forty (40) packages of plants and seeds by 

 mail. 



ANOTHER FUMTGATORY. 



Heretofore, when necessary to disinfect any plants arriving 

 by mail, we have had to remove the plants to one of our fumiga- 

 tories on the docks. With the Executive Officer's consent and 

 Postmaster Pratt's permission we have had a fumigatory made 

 and established in the postoffice, which will expedite such work 

 in the future. As no fire is required in our fumigating work, 

 there is positively no danger of fire to any building. 



NEW ECONOMIC TROPICAL PLANTS. 



One Wardian case from Ceylon arrived via Hongkong con- 

 taining an assortment of tropical plants for experimental pur- 

 poses. They were fumigated and the soil packing was destroyed. 

 Two plants were infested with scale insects. 



INFESTED CACTI CUTTINGS. 



Seven cuttings of Cacti from California infested with scale and 

 mites were destroyed by tying weights and dropping them into 

 the harbor- 



