Ifi GUAM AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



biition will 1)0 made upon the arrival of those plants. (PI. IV, 



fig. ±) 



Plants of several other standard varieties have l)een obtained 

 durin<r the past year and with the multiplication of this stock the 

 station will be in a jDOsition to furnish phints of several of the 

 recognized superior varieties. These introiliiced varieties consist of 

 Red Ceylon and Giant Kew, obtained from Ceylon panel Abachi, 

 Porto Rico, Red Spanisli. and Queen, from Florida. All these 

 varieties have been planted on the station grounds and are making 

 as good growth as could be expected. 



CITRl S TREKS. 



The oranges, lemons, and pomelos introduced from California 

 during the fiscal year 1910, and mentioned in the annual report of 

 the station for that year, liave made satisfactory growth. Disre- 

 garding the attack of scale and mealy bugs, which have done no 

 serious damage, they have remained thrifty and vigorous through- 

 out the year (PL V, fig. 2). Trees of the Satsuma variety of orange, 

 Citnts nohflis, and of the laimquat, C. jnponk-a^ have been introduced 

 from Japan and planted near tliC close of the past fiscal year. 



JAPANESE PERSIMMONS. 



Early in the year a small seedling persimmon was obtained from 

 Manila, and, although it was received in a damaged and unpromis- 

 ing condition, it soon recovered and made rapid growth, assuming 

 a healthy and vigorous state within a few months from planting. 

 This encouragement has led to the introduction from Japan of 

 grafted trees of 10 of the best varieties. Soil of a suitable type for 

 planting these trees was not available on the station, but an effort 

 has been made to improve conditions as far as possible, and it is 

 hoped that the experiment may meet with some success. Sufficient 

 trees Avere obtained to allow of the distribution of a limited number, 

 and in following this course plantings have been made on a range 

 of soil types, and the future development of these trees will be an 

 index to the soils and situations best adapted to this fruit. The in- 

 troduced varieties are: Daidai maru, Tsuro-no-ko. Kuro-kuma, Hva- 

 kume, Zenji, Xitari, Gosho-gaki, Twentieth Centur}^, Hachiya, and 

 Seedless. 



PEACHES. 



An introduction of peach trees consisting of varieties of the Peen- 

 to type lias been made in order to test the possibility of their success 

 here. The soil at the station is entirely too heavy and retentive of 

 moisture for the welfare of the peach, and it was found necessary 



