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Hawaii, and Homestead, Kauai, the totals being 620,739 for 1911, 

 and 806,537 for 1912. 



Tables follow showing the total number of trees reported 

 planted by sugar plantation companies and other corporations 

 throughout the Territory. For 1911 the figure is 1,134,940; for 

 1912, notwithstanding that it was a phenomenally dry year, 1,- 

 303,698. When these figures are compared with 1908, when 

 498,677 trees were reported set out, the increase of interest in 

 tree planting in Hawaii is very apparent. 



Some space is given to experimental forest planting and to 

 plant introduction work, which it is recommended be given more 

 attention. 



FORESTRY NEEDS. 



The needs of the Division of Forestry are summed up as fol- 

 lows : 



The better protection of the native forests needed for water- 

 shed protection, essentially through fencing and the killing off 

 of wild stock. 



Better provision for getting seedling trees and plant material 

 into the hands of those who want to do forest planting, through 

 the establishment of additional sub-nurseries. 



The extension of experimental planting with particular refer- 

 ence to the introduction of plants that will supplement the native 

 forest of the wet districts. 



• The actual planting of areas of government land in various 

 parts of the Territory. 



The continuation and strengthening of the existing policies of 

 the Division of Forestry regarding the protection of the forests 

 from fire and the giving of advice and assistance to owners of 

 forest land. 



Mr. Haughs' report deals in detail with the work at the gov- 

 ernment nursery and the giving of advice and assistance to per- 

 sons desiring to plant trees. It also has an account of the in- 

 troduction and propagation of the basket willow, which gives 

 promise of some day becoming the basis of a new local industry. 



Mr. Rock, botanist, tells of finding new species of plants on 

 the Island of Hawaii and gives further notes about the native 

 Hawaiian rubber-producing tree that he discovered at Puuwaa- 

 waa. The illustrations show typical forest scenes and the work 

 being done at the Division of Forestry nurseries. 



DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



E. M. Ehrhorn, superintendent of entomology, in the next sec- 

 tion of the report, outlines succinctly the work of his division in 

 keeping insect pests from gaining entrance to Hawaii. The im- 

 portance of this work is manifest, and even to one unacquainted 



