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which have chiefly been mahgned in this respect, are to be found 

 among fruit trees and garden flowers. If a Hst of the plants, 

 wdiose cultivation is believed to be impossible in these islands, 

 were submitted to the Hawaii Experiment Station, we have no 

 doubt that fully three-fourths could be freed for the ban which 

 has been thoughtlessly placed upon them. 



The display in the v.nidows of the Hawaii Promotion Com- 

 mittee's Hotel street offices affor^ls a conclusive object lesson ot 

 the superior advantages of our island products. Mr. W'einrich 

 shows, side by side, specimens of the Hawaiian and the Guate- 

 mala sisal plants, and also a selected series of samples of the ropes 

 and cordage made from this useful fibre material. In view of the 

 success which has been achieved by the sisal plantation of which 

 Mr. Weinrich is manager, and of the excellence of the fibre 

 which IS produced there, it is a matter of surprise that more 

 similar plantations have not been established in the islands. 



We are glad to be able to recontinue the admirable series of 

 Agricultural Notes which was discontinued some numbers ago 

 upon the departure of Mr. Jared Smith to the Mainland. The 

 wide experience of the Director of the Hawaii Agricultural Sta- 

 tion has enabled the Forester to publish a valuable selection of 

 statistics and information upon varied agricultural industries, 

 which would otherwise be inaccessible to the majority of its 

 readers. 



RUBBER NOTES. 



"Unfortunately I have only five acres of rubber yielding at 

 present. I get about $100 per acre a month profit from them." — 

 Correspondent in the Ceylon Observer. 



Artificial rubber is no nearer in sight than ten years ago, and 

 seems as remote as artificial gold ; but if it should be achieved, 

 chemical rubber would probably be of a low-grade or would cost 

 more than plantation rubber. However, the fall from present 

 prices is not likely to come very soon. One of the largest Ameri- 

 can importers of rubber has a man in Ceylon now trying to write 

 contracts with rubber plantations there to take their entire output 

 for the next ten years at one dollar per pound, but it is not be- 

 lieved that he is doing much business. The present outlook is that 

 the planters can do better than that. — Ceylon Tropical Agricul- 

 turist. 



