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Cxanea iritomantha, Cyaiica pilosa, Riibiis, PJiyllostegia, etc. 

 Ferns are of course very numerous. The whole forest is in 

 splendid condition, but the undergrowth is much disturbed by 

 the ravages of wild pigs. The uniformity of the forest makes 

 exploring rather uninteresting for a botanist. 



Kulani proper is a densely wooded volcanic cone, the forest 

 being- exceedingly uniform and of the rain forest type. Palms 

 are entirely absent. A gap was cut at the summit to permit 

 a view of the surrounding region. The land toward Keauhou 

 lies considerably lower than that over which Kulani was ap- 

 proached, or, in other words, the slopes of Kulani towards 

 Keauhou are rather steep, giving the cone quite a formidable 

 appearance both in height and size. The summit appears as two 

 cones, but in fact the central valley or ridge, densely wooded, 

 is nothing but an ancient volcanic hssure dividing the cone in 

 two. The ground is covered with fallen trunks of both trees 

 and tree-ferns which are covered with numerous epiphytes such 

 as ferns Stenogyne, Clcnuoiitia pari'iflora, AsteJia verafroides, 

 Selagniella, Lycopodium, etc. The soil is mostly black loam, 

 and the ground cjuite hummocky, which, besides fallen trunks 

 and the absence of a trail, made progress quite slow. If properly 

 fenced and protected from cattle and wild hogs, this forest re- 

 serA^e is certainly one of the finest on Hawaii, and deserves 

 protection from cattle and hogs. 



For the Farmer 



CORN AT THE COLLEGE OF HAWAH FARM. 

 By Prof. L, A. Henke. 



In view of the importance of corn as a food crop and the 

 rapidity with which it can be grown, special efforts were made 

 to develop or find a variety which would prove a sure crop on 

 the low lands of this Territory. On the Island of Kauai a 

 variety of Guam corn has been grown with much success, and 

 the higher elevations of Maui and Hawaii produce splendid 

 crops of corn every year. But on the lower lands of this Ter- 

 ritory the probabilities of failure were greater than those of 

 success when growing the ordinary corn belt varieties of corn. 

 The usual behavior is for the corn plant to grow to a height 

 of about one to three feet when elongation of the stem seems 

 to cease, resulting in the leaves being bunched at the top, the 

 leaves likely are variegated in color (stripes of light green run- 

 ning horizontally through the leaf), some leaves become dis- 

 torted in shape with corrugations running perpendicular to 

 the long axis of the leaf, and before long the leaves begin to 

 turn white and die. The plant seemingly realizing that death 

 is near, makes a last feeble effort to reproduce itself ; the flow- 

 ering tassel is sent up though the plant may be only a foot tall,. 



