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HONOLULU. 
Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, 
E. V. WILCOX, Special Agent in Charge. 
PRESS BULLETIN NO. 28. 
PEANUTS IN HAWAII**/?***- 
BY 
G. KRAUSS, 
AGRONOMIST 
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The peanut is an annual plant. Two more or 
types are in general cultivation. Under Hawaiian 
the "bunch" type grows into an erect, compact bush %*^**3& m «,,»**** 
inches high with an equal spread of foliage ; the "running" or 
"flat" type is decumbent and spreading, rarely more than a foot 
high, and in some varieties attains a spread of fully 5 feet in 
diameter, depending on variety and cultural conditions. 
The fruit is not a nut but a ripened pod with edible seeds, 
not unlike the pea and bean. The prominent yellow inflores- 
ence are the male (staminate) flowers, the female (pistillate) 
flowers are hidden in the axils of the leaves. After fertiliza- 
tion has taken place the male flowers shrivel and fall away, 
while the female flowers rapidly develop into the rudimentary 
fruit on the end of an elongated stem. This soon turns down- 
ward and burrows into the ground, where it matures its so-called 
nuts. From experiments conducted by the Station, the peanut 
would seem to deserve extensive planting in Hawaii. Except 
for an occasional small planting made by Chinese and Japanese 
gardeners, very little has been clone to develop it as a field crop. 
In the southern states the peanut is prized among the most val- 
uable crops, combining, as it does, the desirable qualities of 
several important farm crops. The portion above ground makes 
