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greater since one plantation alone has placed an order for 350,000 

 seedlings, which is rapidly being filled. This all goes to show 

 that interest in tree planting and more particularly for fuel pro- 

 duction is decidedly on the increase. Of the total number of trees 

 distributed in 1915, 62 per cent, was received by sugar plantation 

 and ranch companies and almost half of the trees consisted of 

 the swamp mahogany, Eucalyptus rohusta, an adaptable and fast- 

 growing fuel and timber producer. 



During the calendar year, 1915, from reports that have been 

 sent in to this office, the sugar plantation companies planted out 

 143,458 more trees than in 1914, as follows : 



Number of Trees Planted in the Territory by Sugar Plantation 

 Companies in ipij. 



Hawaii — 



Hamakua Mill Company 2,000 



Hawaiian Agricultural Company 6,000 



Hawi Mill & Plantation Company 1,500 



Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Company. . . . 2,000 



Kaiwiki Sugar Company 1 ,000 



Kohala Sugar Company 12,000 



Niulii Plantation 5,800 30,300 



Maui — 



Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company. . 5,000 



Kaeleku Sugar Company 1,106 



Maui Agricultural Company 243,536 



Pioneer Mill Company 1,500 



Wailuku Sugar Company 13,673 264,815. 



Oahu— 



Honolulu Plantation Company 350,000 



Laie Plantation 1,000 



Waialua Agricultural Company 9.739 360,739 



Kauai — 



Grove Farm Plantation 25,000 



Kekaha Sugar Company 1.000 



Kilauea Sugar Plantation Company 3,000 



Koloa Sugar Company 100 



Makee Sugar Companv 25,600 



McBryde Sugar Company 12,320 67.020 



Total for all islands 722,874 



The sugar plantations set out 83 per cent, of the total number 

 of 874,489 trees planted in the Territory during 1915. The 

 balance was planted by ranch companies, by the Division of 



