The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01
No DOUBLE
DEALING
Hustace Did Not Pay
Magoon for Drawing
Up a Deed.

During the trial OF L. H. Dee VS.. w
H. Smith before Judge Gear yester.
day morning, the intent of the suit be-
ing to set aside an alleged invalid deed
made by Frank Hustace to the defend
ant, Hustace testified that he paid J.
A. Magoon by check $3.50 for legal ser
vices. AS Magoon is attorney for Dee
in the present case, the testimony OF
Hustace was misunderstood by some
| within hearing.
Mr.. Dee said after the court adjourn
ed that the fee had nothing to do with
the deed he is attacking, which as a
matter of fact was prepared in the Of
flee of Robertson & Wilder. Dee had
| been urging Hustace to give a bond
! covering the judgment against himself,
Egan and Foster in the KamaIo case.
Hustace wanted legal advice on the
matter and retained Magoon for the
| purpose with the fee of $3.50, but in
| stead of following up the question of
a bond Hustace went to San Francisco.
Ilc never IeluIIeu W MdSOoil LOT the
requested advice.
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feet apart. are of uniform height, and
the orchard is one of the prettiest hor-
| ticultural sights in these islands.
| Among the most battling factors in
papaya cultivation would appear to be
the uncertainty of results from the
| seeds.
Speaking of strange variations in
tropical plant life, Mr.. Kilmer says:
| The papaya is likewise very prone to
variation. Seeds selected with extreme
| care from f1Ourishing trees, the fruit of
which would weigh fifteen pounds, upon
being planted would in part follow the
| parent stock; other portions would
revert to the wild prototype and yield
| fruit the size of a hens egg
| Hon. William Fawcett, B. Sc, F. L.
| s., Director of the Jamaica Public Gar
| dens and Plantations, is quoted by Mr..
| Kilmer as follows regarding cultiva-
| ton:
| 1.-The best method of planting pa
payas is to raise the young plants in
| beds, and as soon as they are three
| inches high transplant them into bam-
boo joints, in which they can be kept
| they can be transplanted to the open
ground. In dry districts they will re-
| quire abundant watering, irrigation
| twice or thrice a week being absolutely
| necessary. In wet places they can be
| grown with little or no water. Papayas
| require good, rich, deep soil, and good
cultivation; even then many of the
plants, just as they should commence
to bear, suddenly fail, the plants cease
| to grow. the young leaves turn yellow
and fall off,
In the West Indies the accepted mode
| of cultivation of the papaya is to re-
move all but few of the fruit, when
| of small size, afterward nipping off all
flowers from the upper branches of the
| tree, and during the period the fruit is
swelling to administer, when the soil
is dry and seems to require it, copious
| supplies of water.
| Regarding the seeds, Mr.. Kilmer con-
veys tie following information:
I'm some of the fruits of the papaya
| the seeds number five; in others prodi-
gal nature supplies over five hundred.
Apparently only a few of these seeds
are fertile When a native desires a
single tree he buries two or three such
fruits in the ground. and at most two
continued experiment it was found that
| seeds taken from the central portion
of the largest and finest fruits We're
the most likely to be fertile. and would
give more encouraging results. The
proper adjustment of the sexes in tropi-
cal soil is difficult and exasperating.
"The papaya is much like the nutmeg
in it's vagaries of sex relation. 1t is
generally agreed that for fertilization
one male to ten female plants is the
proper ratio but until the trees ar
rive at the blossoming stage Give years
in the case of nutmeg. the male can
not be distinguished from the female.
One can imagine the dismay of the
cultfvator who finds at the end of all
his toll and waiting that he has
plantation of male notwithstanding,
instead of the coveted female or fruit
bearing plants. I have records of nu-
merous instances where acres of ground
were planted with thousands of papaya
plants in which the males were in the
majority of over fifteen to one."-Ha-
waiian Forester and Agriculturist.