THE jHAWAIIAN 



f 0RE6TER I AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. X. AUGUST, 1913. No. 8. 



AMERICAN FORESTERS HELP PALESTINE. 



An agricultural colony in Palestine has just applied to the 

 U. S. forest service for help in planting trees to bind the drift- 

 ing sands of the Mediterranean. The colony is near Jaffa, or 

 Yafa, the ancient Joppa of the Bible, and there is being developed 

 in connection with it a seaside resort, with hotel, villas, bath 

 houses, and gardens. 



The experts of the service point out that the reclamation of 

 sand dunes is not a serious problem in the eastern United States 

 because the prevailing winds are from the land and the sand is 

 blown into the sea. On the west coast the situation is more 

 serious. The most notable example of reclaimed sand areas there 

 is furnished by Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, where grasses, 

 acacias, and, later, trees and shrubs have converted sand wastes 

 into pleasure grounds of great beauty. 



The attention of the Palestine colony is called to the wonder- 

 ful reclamation of the Landes, France, where a wealth-produc- 

 ing forest of maritime pine, the source of the French turpentine, 

 ha's been grown to take the place of shifting dunes The Ameri- 

 can foresters also give the address of the French seedsman who 

 furnished this government with the maritime pine seed which has 

 been used in planting experiments on the Florida national forest, 

 near the Gulf coast. 



Hampton Institute's work for negroes will probably afford 

 some ideas of value for consideration by the promoters of voca- 

 tional instruction in Hawaii. 



Anything Hawaii takes up in the way of new agricultural in- 

 dustries is sure to be noticed abroad. Progressive methods appear 

 to be taken for granted as appurtenant to these islands. The 

 best way to live up to this reputation is perseverance in com- 

 bating obstacles of pests and of other things, and by looking 

 out for all good ideas put in practice in other countries of simi- 

 lar conditions. Alany things have been fitfully taken up in Ha- 

 waii and abandoned almost at the first blush of misfortune in 

 results. 



