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REPORT OF HORTICULTURAL QUARANTINE 

 INSPECTION WORK. 



Honolulu, T. H., October 31st, 1906. 

 To the Honorable Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentlemen: During the month of October seventeen (17) 

 steam and sailing vessels arrived from outside this Territory 

 on which we found thirteen thousand, five hundred and fifty- 

 one (13,551) packages of fresh fruits and vegetables, seven (7) 

 cases of plants, two (2) barrels of seed and fifty-four (54) pack- 

 ages of plants and seeds by mail. A few lots found attacked by 

 fungi diseases or insect pests have been destroyed or fumigated 

 with carbon bisulphide or hydrocyanic acid gas. 



Since my last report, October 3rd, wx have fumigated three 

 thousand three hundred and fifty-eight (3,358) sacks of old 

 crop rice, using fumes of carbon bi-sulphide. The above chemi- 

 cal was exhausted in town owing to the previous heavy fumiga- 

 tion of infested rice and a fresh supply arrived ex S. S. "Hilo- 

 nian" on October 21st. 



On October 9th Mr. C. J. Austin, after repairing the orchard 

 fumigation outfit, commenced the treatment of the scale in- 

 fested Moanalua Indian mango trees that were imported four 

 years ago and planted without fumigation. The fumigation of 

 the trees was done at night on account of less danger by 

 actinic rays ; even with that precaution a slight injury was done 

 the very tender foliage ; this, however, was not lasting as since 

 the fumigation the trees have all put on a healthy vigorous 

 new growth, and on careful examination we failed to find a 

 single living scale. 



On October 20th Mr. Kotinsky received a twig of "Norfolk 

 Island pine" from Kauai infested with small ''Araucaria scales" 

 (Pseudococciis aurilanafns). Mr. Kotinsky replied and made in- 

 quiry regarding its introduction and received a reply that he 

 had received a few small Araucaria trees from a nursery in the 

 East and from a firm in San Francisco and is of the opinion 

 that it was on the latter trees the scale came by mail. The 

 owners dipped the two small trees in "whale oil soap" solution. 



