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In connection with the sub-nursery at Homestead some experi- 

 mental planting- of exotics has been clone at the Papapaholahola 

 Spring- reserve. On Maui experimental forest planting in co- 

 operation with the Division of Forestry is in progress at Kailiili, 

 under the charge of Mr. W. Hannestad ; at Wailuku, under an 

 agreement with the Wailuku Sugar Co., and in Koolau, under 

 the arrangement with the East ]\laui Irrigation Company already 

 referred to. 



The experimental plantation of eucalypts in Nuuanu Valley, 

 Oahu, started with funds provided by the U. S. Forest Service, 

 has now got to the stage when the little trees can take care of 

 themselves. It may be regarded as established. 



Forest Fires. 



During the year forest or brush fires were reported from the 

 following localities : Kapaa, Kauai ; Waipio, Wahiawa, Pacific 

 Heig-hts and Kalihi Valley, Oahu; Pukoo, ]\Iolokai, and Ninole, 

 Kau, Hawaii. In each case the fire was got under control and 

 put out before it had resulted in serious damage. 



New fire wardens were appointed during 1913. as follows: 

 Island of Kauai: F. A. Alexander (Koloa), G. P. Wilcox (Ka- 

 waihauj. Island of Oahu: H. Blomfield Brown, Geo. "SI. Rob- 

 ertson and Geo. Wilson (Waialua), C. J. Wheeler (Koolauloa) 

 and Otto Ludlofif ( Koolaupoko ) . Island of ]\Iaui: Andrew Gross 

 (Wailuku), A. K. Jones (Kahikinui). Island of Hawaii: Geo. 

 Gibb (Kau), C. F. Eckart (Puna), D. S. Macalister and Alex. 

 Morrison (Hamakua), and O. L. Sorenson (So. Kohala). 



Pitblieations. 



The biennial Report of the Board and its several divisions for 

 1911 and 1912 was issued in March. As usual the divisional re- 

 ports appeared also as separates, for distribution to persons and 

 institutions interested only in particular phases of the work. 



In June there appeared, as Botanical Bulletin No. 2 of the 

 Board, a "List of Hawaiian Names of Plants," by Joseph F. Rock, 

 consulting botanist of the Board. This list is compiled from Mr. 

 Rock's volume, "The Indigenous Trees of the Flawaiian Islands," 

 that appeared in June, 1913. Privately printed, under patronage, 

 the field work on which this work was based was largely done 

 while Mr. Rock was still actively on the stafif of the Division of 

 Forestry. The book is a highly valuable contribution to our 

 knowledge of the Hawaiian flora and from now on will be looked 

 to as the recognized authority in local dendrological questions. 



Looking back at the year, nineteen thirteen may be regarded 

 as the beginning of a new regime in the forest work of Hawaii — 

 the time when education and propaganda gave place to getting 

 actually under way in the forest on a scale large enough to be 



