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Forest Reserve Matters. 



During the month I made several short held trips in connection 

 with matters of locating forest reserve boundaries and fencing. 

 The localities visited were Palolo and Nanakuli X'alleys and the 

 land of Aiea, Oahu, and that portion of the land of Kehena 2, 

 Kohala, Hawaii, for which the Government has instituted con- 

 demnation proceedings. On this last trip, January 9-12, the party 

 consisted of Mr. Arthur G. Smith, Deputy Attorney General, who 

 is conducting the case for the Government, and Mr. L. von 

 Tempsky of Maui, who went along to give expert testimony as to 

 the value for ranching of the area in question. 



Early in the month Mr. Haughs and I made a hasty visit with 

 j\Ir. A. W. Van Yalkenberg, to his forest plantation at Kunia, 

 Oahu, where groves of a number of species of Eucalypts are 

 making excellent growth. In time this jilantation should yield 

 large quantities of wood and timber. 



During January progress has been made with a ])roiect to i)lant 

 forest trees on the portion of the Government land of Aiea that 

 lies within the Ewa Forest Reserve, the actual work to be done 

 by the Honolulu Plantation Company under a cooj^^erative agree- 

 ment whereby the plantation will later be reimbursed in fuel wood 

 for the money expended in the planting. 



Plantation Tree Plantiiig. 



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The Division of Forestry continues to send i^ut considerable 

 numbers of forest tree seedlings to sugar ])lantation companies 

 and otliers doing extensive tree planting. Si.xty-eight thousand 

 seedling trees left the Nursery in January for this purpose. For 

 further details in connection therewith Mr. Haughs' rcjiort. trans- 

 mitted herewith, should be consulted. 



Botanieal Exf^loratioii. 



Mr. J. F. R(jck, consulting botanist of this Division, is still on 

 Hawaii, where he is having a successful collecting trip in the 

 districts of Kau anrl Kona. He writes that he has secured much 

 additional herbarium material, including some very rare ]ilants. 

 .and also that he has collected a considerable {juantity of seed of 

 native Hawaiian trees. This is jiarticularly welcome news for 

 these seeds can be used to very good advantage in exchanges wilii 

 botanic gardens from whom we desire special favors. 



Progress is being mafle on Mr. Rock's proposed book on Ha- 

 waiian trees. It is probable that the manuscript can be sent to 

 llic printer sfjon after his return t(j Honolulu. 



