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lulu. The tree is suggestive of the pepper in appearance, but 

 not as large, averaging about the size of our apple trees. It 

 was brought to the island in 1837, from Australia, by a Roman 

 Catholic priest, Avho in that act did as much for the people of 

 the Hawaiian Islands — speaking in a material sense — as per- 

 haps any man who' ever went there. The bean is good for cat- 

 tle and so liked by them that one may see "pastures" without a 

 blade of grass and looking like orchards, and the tree is invalu- 

 able as firewood. It has shallow roots, so that one can never 

 tell when a strong wind may lay it low ; but it is a rapid grower, 

 and already woods all the islands, while a man need not have 

 a great many trees in his back yard to supply his rather frugal 

 fire needs throughout the year, and yet at the year's end have 

 as good trees as he had at its beginning! 



The wonderful flowering vines are the Bougainvillaea and 

 the Bignonia venusta — the latter a mass of orange colored 

 bloom — throwing its royal mantle of Holland clear over the 

 roofs of houses, and the former an equally wonderful mass of 

 cerise, or much more rarely of scarlet, flowers. The Bougain- 

 villaea is a great favorite, as it well may be, but its commoner 

 color so fights with the color of every other flower in the gar- 

 den that if one is particular about efifect one must plan to set 

 it in plain green. But it is sufliciently beautiful in itself; and 

 when, in walking or driving about Honolulu, one comes on 

 the great splashes of one or the other of these vines — as one 

 very frequently does — any lack of flow^ers as compared with 

 California is forgotten. 



The most familiar hedge is the hibiscus, which is found in 

 all parts of the city. Almost all the time it is thickly covered 

 with large flov%^ers of a bright red, like very wide open red 

 tulips. These lie on the top and sides of the hedge, showing 

 strongly agamst the green, as if they were pinned there for 

 temporary effect. This also adds much to the floral show of 

 the island. On the stone walls, of which there are a consid- 

 erable number, the night-blooming cereus is a common hedge 

 or cover. It is said that in front of Oahu College the flowers 

 of the plants number some thousands at a time. In the gardens 

 the most common decorative plant is the croton, which comes 

 in many varieties. 



There is little good landscape work. The gospel of the open 

 lawn with massed border planting seemed hardly to be known. 



