21 



Plants 12 packages 



Fruit 10 



Total refused shipment 



99 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. M. Ehrhorn, 

 Superintendent of Entomology 



DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



Honolulu, November 17, 1915. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit the following routine report 

 for the Division of Forestry for the month of October, 1915: 



Forest Fires. 



On October 6 there was a fire on the ridge between Wailupe 

 and Niu Valleys, Oahu, which burned over a few acres of land 

 covered with grass and lantana. A severe wind was blowing at 

 the time, but the fire was promptly extinguished that same night 

 by ten men whom Judge A. Perry personally conducted to the 

 area. 



Kahoolaive. 



In company with Commissioner H. M. von Holt I visited the 

 Kahoolawe Forest Reserve from October 8-11. Mr. Eben Low 

 kindly took us over to the island in his launch and furnished us 

 with riding horses and other accommodations while on the island. 

 We found the island greatly benefited by the recent heavy rains, 

 which have made the pili grass and native weeds, such as ilima 

 and ahuloa, grow tall and rank, and by the reduction of stock 

 which has enabled the algaroba trees and herbage to get a good 

 start. We found these young trees in almost every situation on 

 the island where the pili grass grows, and if they are not injured 

 in any way they promise to become quite a forest. A part of 

 the top of the island is still nothing but bare red dirt, but if 

 all stock is removed from the island it is my belief that the 

 grasses at least will encroach on the barren land. Several dozen 

 highland ironwood trees, Casuarina ciiadrivalvis, which Mr. Low 

 planted on the upper part of the island at an elevation of 1200 

 feet in April, 1912, are well established and growing nicely, and 

 in the same region the forage grass, Paspalum dilitatiini, which 

 he set out, is spreading rapidly over a large area and promises 

 to be a good soil-binder. It is estimated that there still remain 



