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PLANTATION COMPANIES AND OTHER CORPORATIONS. 



Under the above heading 300 pot grown plants were dis- 

 tributed. We received orders during the month for 40,000 seed- 

 Hngs to be dehvered during the month of September. 



MAKIKI STATION. 



The work at this station has been principally routine. We 

 are collecting logs of all the different kinds of trees to be found 

 around Honolulu on Tantalus. The logs will be cut up into fence 

 posts, box shooks, laths, etc., and will be tested in regard to dura- 

 bility. Wood specimens w^ill also be cut for reference purposes. 



HONOLULU W^VTERSHED PLANTING. 



A commencement has been made to cut out and trim the trees 

 along the Tantalus road that runs through the Makiki forest. 

 Complaints have been made by people using the road that the 

 dense shade caused by the trees kept the road always wet and 

 consequently unfit for ordinary traffic. We have started at the 

 bottom of the forest and intend carrying the work right through 

 to the top. Whfn we get finished there will be no cause left for 

 complaint, as far as the trees are concerned, and it will be up to 

 the County officials to put the road in good condition. 



ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE. 



The wTiter has been requested to make calls and otherwise give 

 advice and assistance as follows : 



Calls made 7 



Advice by letter 4 



Advice by telephone 8 



Advice at Nursery 10 



Respectfully submitted, 



David Haughs, 

 Forest Nurseryman. 



Division of Entomology 



Honolulu, Hawaii, August 9, 1918 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — E>uring the month of July the insectary handled 

 21,900 pupae of the melon fly, from which there were bred 2,311 

 females and 2,072 males, Opius fletcheri. 



The distribution of parasites was as follows : 



