THE JHAWAIIAN 



rORESTER I AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. XI. FEBRUARY, 1914. No. 2 



Divisional reports for January elsewhere speak for themselves 

 in the showing they make of activity and progress in each case. 



Some clear and compact notes on pineapple culture, heing a 

 paper by Mr. C. G. White, adds much to the value of this num- 

 ber of the Forester. 



Prof. Silvestri's report of his expedition in Africa in search 

 of fruit fly parasites has been issued in bulletin form. A review 

 is deferred on account of crowded space. 



Through inadvertence the Index to Volume X was not mailed 

 with the January number. It will reach Forester readers with 

 the present number, answering many inquiries from the islands 

 and mainland. 



In this number is begun the publication of a thesis on alfalfa, 

 by Mr. INIeinecke, a student of the College of Flawaii, with an 

 introduction by Mr. Krauss, professor of agronomy in that in- 

 stitution. It will run for seven or eight months. 



NOTES OX PI XE APPLE CULTURE. 



Paper read bv C. G. White before the Homesteaders" Associa- 

 ' tion. Haiku, Maui, Oct. 18. 1913. 



There does not seem to be anything in pineapple plant selection 

 for uniformity and shape of fruit. In my experiments to this 

 end, crown plants from cone shaped fruit, and from multiple 

 crowned fruit growing side by side, all produced normal fine bar- 

 rel shaped fruit. It is my judgment that coned shaped fruit 

 occurs most often in the winter crop, especially on poorly pre- 

 pared ground, the cause being a check to the feeding ability of the 

 plant. 



The best prepared and cultivated ground gives the most uni- 

 form fruit. The same condition also seems to have something 

 to do wdth an early yellowness inside the fruit, while the outside 

 is still j.!:reen. 



I do practice a rough selection, making for vitality. vSick 



