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the congressional vegetable seed. This may be had upon 

 application to the flailing Clerk. 



The library room of the Board was used for meetings during 

 the past fortnight, as follows : 



Hawaiian Entomological Society, April 4th. 



Hawaiian Poultry Association, April 9th. 



Very respectfully, 



Ralph S. Hosmer, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



April 30, 1907. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestr^v, 

 Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit the following- ic- 

 port covering the work of the Division of Forestry from April 

 17 to date. 



During this fortnight I have been in Honolulu occupied 

 with the completion of reports on a proposed forest reserve 

 on the Island of Kauai and on the addition of certain govern- 

 ment lands to the ''area actually reserved" in the Koolau 

 (Maui) and the Hana Forest Reserves. The remainder of the 

 time has been taken up with attention to various details coi>- 

 nected with the regular work of the Division. 



On Thursday, April iSth, Mr. Haughs visited AVahiawa and 

 completed the lield v/ork necessary for the preparation of a 

 planting plan for the Wahiawa Water Company. 



A collection of exotic seed has recently been sent out to 

 thirteen volunteer observers who have consented to plant 

 tlie seed and later set out the trees. 



On Tuesday, April 23, Mr. Flaughs moved into the cottage 

 in the nursery grounds v/hich has recently been put into repaid. 

 This will enable him to exercise continuous supervision over 

 the grounds, a care which since Mr. Austin's resignation has 

 not been exercised. 



The library room of the Board was used for a meeting of the 

 Honolulu Improvement Advisory Board on Tuesday, April 23. 



V^ery respectfully, 



R.\].t'H '^v Hosmer. 

 Superintendent of F. rt'^try. 



Report of the Forest Niirseryuinii. 



In a report to the Superintendent of Forestry dated April 

 30, ]Mr. David Haughs, the Forest Nurseryman, after nientioi!- 

 mg his trip to Wahiawa, says : 



