14 GUAM AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



days after its arrival from California failed to grow. Six different 

 varieties were represented in this lot, and the germination results 

 ranged from less than 1 per cent to a total failure. The same diffi- 

 culty has been experienced before in each attempt to grow onions, and 

 in order to obtain a stand we have recently received and planted a 

 quantity of onion sets. These were received in good condition near 

 the close of the year and give fair promise of success. 



RADISHES. 



Work has been in progress to determine the possibility of growing 

 radishes throughout the drv season. The results of these successive 

 plantings have been very successful, i)ractically no difference in yield 

 or in quality of roots being shown from plantings made at various 

 times from earl}' in December to the latter part of March. A com- 

 parative test of seven different varieties showed a large, stump- 

 rooted, white variety (No. 117) to have distinctly superior qualities 

 over all others represented when grown under Guam conditions. 

 This variety was grown from Chinese-produced seed, introduced 

 from Manila b}' the station, and is quite distinct from Chinese AVliite 

 Winter, which is widely advertised by Pacific coast seed dealers, and 

 which was one of the varieties grown in the experiment to which 

 allusion has just been made. Top growth of Xo. 117 is unusually 

 vigorous, and it has been observed that a caterpillar, which damaged 

 other varieties by weaving webs in and feeding upon the leaves, did 

 little or no damage to this one. This variety matures here two or 

 three days later than hOme of the other varieties, but it develops 

 more uniformly and remains crisp and tender for a longer period. 

 As a means of comparing the results of radishes grown in Guam and 

 the well-known yields obtained elsewhere, a note from our past 

 year's records may be of interest. A garden bed containing an area 

 of 400 square feet was planted to No. 117 on December 31, and the 

 first radishes were pulled January 27, just four weeks after planting. 

 The last of the crop, which amounted to 83 dozen good marketable 

 radishes, was harvested on February 18, seven wrecks from planting. 

 The seed was sown in drills 15 inches apart, and a considerably 

 greater yield would no doubt have resulted from closer planting. 

 The radishes were large and uniform in size, crisp and tender in 

 quality, and remained free from pith to the very last. (PI. Ill, 

 fig. 2.) 



OTHER VEGETABLES. 



Cucumbei*s have produced exceptionally heavy yields throughout 

 the dry season, and the quality has been beyond criticism. The vines 

 have at certain times been somewhat damaged from the attack of 



