

.\.;sv vokit 

 UAkuHH 



THE HAWAIIAN FORESTER 

 AND AGRICULTURIST 



VOL. XVIII. Honolulu, April, 1921. No. 4 



Restrictions placed by the Board on the introduction of fig 

 wasps from foreign countries are set forth in this issue. 



A formal notice requiring permits to start fires on any lands 

 in East Hawaii until the end of the present calendar year appears 

 in this issue. 



Attention is called to the description in the last issue of the 

 initiation of an experiment in Nuuanu Valley to reclaim land 

 occupied exclusively by Hilo grass. 



Active progress is being made in fencing" forest reserve boun- 

 daries, as will be seen by the March report of the Superintendent 

 of Forestry printed in this number. 



The desirability and necessity of protecting our susceptible 

 native forest from all forms of damage are concisely set forth 

 in an article on Hawaiian forests and trails contained in this 



issue. 



The plan of the Outdoor Circle to combine with the city utility 

 companies in employing a city forester to care for street trees is 

 a step in the right direction and should result in making Hono- 

 lulu more beautiful. 



New seed introductions during Alarch consisted of a new 

 chaulmoogra oil tree {Hydnocarpus casianca) from the Marta- 

 ban Hills in Burma, and the Moreton Bay fig {Ficiis macro phylla) 

 from Sydney, Australia. 



Among other trees set out during March, the Division of 

 Forestry planted 2,046 koa trees in the Waianae Mountains. In 

 a few years, visitors to Kolekole Pass will gaze upon new koa 

 groves instead of upon bare and washed hillsides as at present. 



The members of the Legislature who visted the Waianae-Kai 

 Forest Reserve on March 6, were very strongly impressed with 

 the wonderful results of forest protection which they viewed in 

 the form of a dense forest cover and running streams of pure 

 \ mountain water on lands that less than a quarter of a century 

 <?^ ago were bare. 



