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Plantation Companies and Other Corporations. 



The distribution of plants under this heading amounted to 

 200 in transplant boxes and 250 pot grown, total 450. 



Makiki Station. 



The work at this station was principally routine, consisting 

 of mixing and sterilizing soil, transplanting and potting plants. 



Honolulu Watershed Planting. 



The area upon which the Caesalpinia bonduc had taken pos- 

 session, and which we cleared off about a year ago, was all gone 

 over and the seedlings and a few remaining root shoots dug up 

 and destroyed. The Caesalpinia bonduc in Opu valley is grad- 

 ually being routed out. With the aid of the squatters in that 

 section one day each month assisted by our men, this pest will 

 soon be eradicated from this part of the preserve. 



Advice and Assistance. 



The writer has been called upon to make visits and give advice 

 and assistance as follows : Visits made 8, telephone advice 10, 

 letter advice 4, advice given at Nursery 6. 



Very respectfully, 



David Haughs, 

 Forest Nurseryman. 



REPORT FOR JULY. 



Honolulu, August 20, 1917. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit the following routine report 

 of the Division of Forestry for the month of July, 1917. 



My work as Executive Officer in connection with anthrax con- 

 trol, preparing the budget and reports, and attending meetings 

 kept me rather closely confined to Honolulu during the month, 

 but I w^as able to get away from the office twice. 



Field Trips. 



One day was spent with Consulting Botanist J. F. Rock in the 

 region of Leilehua and Waialua, Oahu. looking up rare native 

 trees of botanical interest and in obtaining a general idea of the 



