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Along the seashore and in its immediate neighborhood are nu- 

 merous groves of coconut pahns, and in most gardens sundry 

 tropical fruit trees, such as Carica papaya, Maui^ifcra indica, and 

 Pcrsea grafissima are common. The "Xiglit Blooming Cereus" 

 covers many stone walls in th.e cit}', and when in bloom is a 

 remarkal)le sight. 



Hawaii is an Eldorado for the botanist who has never been "v: 

 the tropics. It is within easy reach of the Pacific Coast, and there 

 is no place better suited for a pleasant vacation than these islands 

 with their almost tropical flora, where the climate is agreeable, 

 the living comfortable, and traveling easy. 



Four weeks spent in the islands in 1902, and four weeks in 

 1906, made me love ''Hawaii nei," ''Happy Hawaii," as the natives 

 call their kingdom of the sea, with its fair skies and blue ocean, 

 its bright flowers and its verdant green, its droning palms, and 

 its ragged volcanoes, its drowsy tropical atmosphere, and its bril- 

 liant sunsets, surpassed by none in my experience but those of 

 Samoa, the most beautiful islands of the Pacific. 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 

 DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



ROUTINE REPORTS. 



May 15, 1907. 

 Board of Commissioners of 



Agriculture and Forestry, 



Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : I have the honor to submit the routine report of 

 the Division of Forestry for the fortnight. 



During this time I have been in Honolulu engaged with various 

 routine duties in connection with work of the Division of For- 

 estry and with preparations for contemplated trips to the other 

 island's, having to do with forest reserve matters. 



The Governor has set the date of the public hearing for the 

 consideration of the proposed Na Pali-Kona Forest Reserve on 

 Kauai as Monday, May 27th. At the same time there will be 

 considered the recommendations of the Board regarding the in- 

 crease in area of government lands actually set apart in the Hana 

 and the Koolau Forest Reserves on Maui. 



Mr. Haughs has completed a report and planting plan for a 

 part of the land of Wahiawa within the Ewa Forest Reserve. 

 This report was prepared at the request of the Wahiawa Water 

 Company. 



