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over $160,000 worth of honey, and an enormous yield of beans, 

 which furnish a valuable fattening food for stock at a time when 

 the long, dry summer has exhausted the grass supply. 



On account of the economic position which it holds in the 

 island flora and the blessings which the original tree, now gone, 

 has showered on the. inhabitants of this Territory (aside from 

 the native forest trees which conserv^e our moisture), the 

 algaroba tree has well earned its place today as the most valuable 

 tree in Hawaii. C. S. J. 



Plant Inspection Rule Amended 



Rule I of the Division of Plant Inspection, originally approved 

 on October 25, 1904, and approved with amendments on June 8, 

 1918, was on October 21, 1919, further amended by the Board 

 of Agriculture and Forestry and received the approval of the 

 Governor on October 31, 1919. 



The purpose of this last amendment was twofold : 



1. Section 1, which prohibits in general the importing of fresh 

 fruit into the Territory from certain foreign countries on account 

 of the introduction of fruit flies and other insects, was amended 

 to permit the importation of fresh apples from New Zealand 

 under certain conditions. Mr. Adolph Moritzson of Dunedin, 

 New Zealand, recently brought to the attention of the Board the 

 advisability of allowing fresh apples to be imported from New 

 Zealand, pointing out that there were no fruit flies or other 

 injurious insects in New Zealand which would endanger the 

 Hawaiian crops aud which could come on such shipments, that 

 the apples would come in cold storage, not in contact with any 

 other fruit, and that they would reach the Honolulu market from 

 February to July, during the ofif shipment of California fruit. 

 This section was, therefore, amended so as to permit the import- 

 ation of fresh apples from New Zealand in cold storage only, 

 provided they are free from insects and plant diseases and are 

 accompanied by government certificates that the apples have been 

 grown in New Zealand, are shipped free from pests and diseases, 

 and have not and will not come in contact with Australian grown 

 fruit on the voyage to Hawaii. 



2. Section 2, which governed the importation and inspection 

 of plants, seeds, etc., from foreign countries, was radically 

 changed and made more restrictive, in order to keep abreast of 

 the times and to conform with the regulations of quarantine No. 

 Z7 of the Federal Horticultural Board. The object of this 

 amendment is to keep out soil, succulent plants, or any other 

 plants and parts of plants which are likely' to harbor injurious 

 insects and plant pests.^ which must be kept out of this Territory. 



Rule I of the Division of Plant Inspection, as recently 

 amended, appears on the By Authority pages of this number. 



