Excerpt from Papaya Culture in Hawaii Papaya (uarica papaya) investigations have been conducted at the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station since 1902. During the past eight years the investigations have been confined prin cipally to a determination Of the cultural requirements and methods Of improving the species. Completion Of the work has been greatly retarded because Of the unsettled habits Of the plant. Its tendency to exhibit marked variations in nature and growth Of fruit was Observed in other countries by Correa de mello and Spruce (15, p. In 1869, by Forbes p. 313) in 1879, by solms-laubach (18) in 1889, by Iorns (10) in 1908, and by Kulkarni (12) in 1915. Wells (22) in 1906 published a general article on the papaya in Hawaii, and Higgins and Holt (9) in 1914 reported the results Of crossbreeding the papaya at the Hawaii station. This bulletin, which supplements and brings up to date the pre vious bulletin of the Hawaii station by Higgins and Holt has been prepared to meet the demand for information on practical ways of growing the papaya in Hawaii and elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.