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soil and situation and the unfavorable weather, this is extremely 

 encouraj^inj^. The area recjuired to be planted is now practically 

 completed, but the I'arker Ranch is continuing the work by ex- 

 tending the block of planted forest over its own adjoining fee 

 simple lands. 



Under the tree planting contract with Mr. C. G. Owen, recently 

 made for Pupukea, Oahu, the first installment of trees went out 

 from the Government Nursery early in April. These are to be 

 used as a windbreak on the edge of the gulch adjoining the area 

 to be planted in pineapples and later with trees. 



Under the provisions of government leases requiring such work, 

 tree planting is going forward on government land at Kukaiau 

 and Upper Paauhau, Hawaii, and at Kula, Maui. From all 

 three of these places satisfactory reports have recently come in. 



This year the demand from plantation companies for seedling 

 trees has continued later into the si)ring than is usual. Several 

 considerable orders were placed in April. The details are given 

 in Mr. liaughs' report. 



Expcr'uncntal IVork. 



Thro' the ccAirtcsy of 1 Ion. A. de Sousa Canavarro, Consul 

 for Portugal, the division of forestry received some time ago 

 cuttings of basket willow. These were propagated at the experi- 

 mental garden in i\Iakiki Valley, and in A])ril enough shoots were 

 cut to make a half dozen good-sized baskets and ham]:)ers. This 

 work was done by a Portuguese laborer skilled in basketry. 

 There are no cuttings ready for distribution as yet, but next year 

 a considerable number of persons can be supplied. There seems 

 no good reason wliy in time basket making in Hawaii should not 

 become an industry emi)loying a goodly number of jjersons. This 

 project is past the experimental stage, it is simply a question of 

 how fast the i)arent plants can be made to reproduce. 



Official notification has just been received from the b'cderal 

 forest service, Washington, that for the fiscal period from July 

 1, 1912, to June 30, 1913, the sum of $500 has been allotted for 

 continuing experimental tree planting in Hawaii. Allotments 

 from the forest service have now been received for several years. 

 At first all the money was spent in planting temperate zone coni- 

 fers on the higher nioinilains. Many of tlie results here, as was 

 to be expected, were negative, but on the showing made Mr. IT. S. 

 Ciraves, the Federal forester, says in a letter dated April 4. 1''12: 

 "The rejjorts show that careful and thorough work has been done 

 and that successful methods of reforestation adajited to the vari- 

 ous sites where tests are in ])rogress will undoubtedly be dc- 

 velojjcfl. I am much i)leased with the showing made and the re- 

 sults which you have accomplished with the expenditure of forest 

 service funds for developing reforestation methods adaj^ted to 

 Hawaii." 



