THE jHAWAIIAN 



P0RE8TER H AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. IX. JULY, 1912. No. 7. 



Recent bulletins of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment 

 Station are the following entitled : Sisal and the Utilization 

 of Sisal Waste, by E. V. Wilcox and Wm. jMcGeorge ; The 

 Pineapple in Hawaii, bv J- E. Higgins ; Index to Pubhcations, 

 July 1, 1901, to December 31. 1911. by A. T. Longley. 



Mr. David Smith, a fruit and banana merchant of Flinder's 

 Lane, Melbourne, writing on the 30th ultimo, on the banana 

 trade, points out that there is always a good market awaiting 

 Fiji bananas in Melbourne. At present they are practically 

 relying on Queensland for supplies, "and the stuff they are 

 shipping is not worth classing as bananas, being small and 

 very discolored in appearance ; however, we have to make the 

 best of them." — ^^^estern Pacific Herald. 



The foregoing may contain a suggestion for Hawaii to act 

 upon when the Panama canal has been opened. 



The Tropical Agriculturist (Ceylon) for May copies from the 

 Forester for January the article by E. M. Ehrhorn, Territorial 

 entomologist, "Clean Cultural Practice Method for Fighting In- 

 sect Pests." The same magazine has reproduced in two num- 

 bers, concluding it in the ^lay, T. H. Gibson's report on the 

 ""Course of Study for Elementary Schools," from the Forester. 



According to Colonial Reports, the cultivation of limes con- 

 tinues to occupy the position of principal agricultural industry in 

 Dominica, and further expansion has once again to be recorded. 

 The crop for the year was 369,000 barrels, an increase of 85,000 

 barrels over the crop of 1909. This remarkable increase is partly 

 attributable to the coming into bearing of young plantations esta- 

 lished within recent vears. 



A HANDSOME FLOU'ERIXG PLANT. 



The Agricultural Netcs (West Indies) gives, from various au- 

 thorities, an account of Baikiaea insiguis, belonging to the family 

 of pod-bearing plants ( Leguminosae ) and a specimen of which, 

 it is said, may be seen in the Dominica Botanic Garden. It is 



