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last two being respectively and more particuarly described in the expired 

 Public Lands Office Leases Nos. 420 and 421) ; and also any other remnants 

 of government land not under lease, within the metes and bounds of the 

 above described Kau Forest Reserve, 



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused 

 the seal of the Territory of Hawaii to be affixed. 



Done at the Executive Building, in Honohdu, this 2nd day of August, 

 A. D. 1906. 



GEORGE R. CARTER, 



Governor of Hawaii, 

 By the Governor, 



A. L. C, ATKINSON, 



Secretary. 



RUBBER. 



The Government of Brazil has decreed a prize of 30,000 dol- 

 lars for anyone who exhibits 100,000 Manicoba rubber trees 

 {Hancornia speciosa) within eighteen months from December, 

 the date of the announcement; and three other prizes of 15,000 

 dollars, 10,000 dollars and 5,000 dollars, respectively, for the 

 three n^ext largest plantations, the smallest of which, in order to 

 gain a prize, must not be less than 10,000 trees. It appears that, 

 not to speak of the value of the rubber, the coffee trees benefit 

 greatly by the shade afforded by the rubber trees, — West India 

 Committee Circular, 19th January, 1906. 



For a money crop in the sub-tropical region of Florida, avo- 

 cadoes have a very promising look. During the last five years a 

 very large amount of work has been done in systematizing the 

 varieties and in working up the methods of propogation. — The 

 Florida Agriculturist. 



