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Trip to Haivaii. 



P^rom May 17 to 31, I was on the Island of Hawaii, engaged on 

 a general inspection trip that included an examination of the con- 

 dition of the forest in the Kau Forest Reserve, a visit to the Hilo 

 Nursery in charge of Bro. Matthias Newell, where about 10,000 

 seedling trees of various kinds were seen, awaiting distribution, 

 an inspection of the tree planting now in progress on waste lands 

 of the Hawaiian Agricultural Company's sugar plantation at Pa- 

 hala, and a careful checking up and inspection of the forest plant- 

 ing that has been going on, under contract, on the government 

 reserve of Puukapu, above Waimea village. Incidentally, I saw 

 a good many people along the way who had interests in one and 

 another forest matters. 



The tree planting at Pahala is especially to be commended as 

 being just the sort of work which this division has been persist- 

 ently advocating for a number of years — the utilization of gulch 

 sides and other waste areas not adapted for sugar cane, by the 

 planting of trees useful for fuel or wood. Eucalyptus rohusta and 

 E. Globulus are the trees that have mostly been planted. Along 

 some of the roads and about the newer laborers' camps lines or 

 shelter belts of these and other trees have been set out. The work 

 is receiving not a little of the personal attention of Mr. W. G. 

 Ogg, manager of the Pahala Plantation, who has become an en- 

 thusiastic tree planter. 



The tree planting at Waimea is being done under a contract en- 

 tered into last year between this department and Mr. A. W. Car- 

 ter. Some forty odd acres of Eucalyptus robusta have been set 

 out. The trees are spaced six feet apart, 1210 to the acre. The 

 stand is in excellent condition, only a very small percentage of 

 the seedlings set out having died. Under the contract, Mr. Carter 

 furnished the seedlings from the Parker Ranch Nursery at Wai- 

 mea. This forest plantation is now being extended by him on 

 the fee simple land of Waikoloa, owned by the ranch. In all there 

 will be planted a considerable block of forest. 



Work at the Government Nursery. 



The routine report of the Forest Nurseryman, transmitted 

 herewith, gives the details of the work carried on at the Gov- 

 ernment Nursery and the Makiki Station during the month. 



Nezv Circular. 



During the month a new circular of the Division of Forestry 

 has been issued. No. 2, entitled "Instructions for Propagating 

 Forest, Shade and Ornamental Trees," by David Haughs, Forest 

 Nurseryman. This circular is a revision and enlargement of an 

 earlier press-bulletin. It contains practical directions about va- 



