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number of other persons have helped distribute shipments of trees 

 sent from Honolulu. It should be added, too, that many of the 

 sugar plantation companies and other corporations having nur- 

 series of their own make a practice of giving away trees to home- 

 steaders and others in their vicinity. Prior to Arbor Day, notices 

 of the free distribution of two dozen trees each to every applicant, 

 in English, in Hawaiian and in Portuguese, were given wide 

 publicity throughout the Territory so that any one who really 

 wanted trees has only himself to blame if he did not get them. 



On Maui and on Oahu trees for roadside planting have, upon 

 request, been supplied free to the County officials. With the 

 establishment of more sub-nurseries it is hoped that this branch 

 of the work can be extended. 



ARBOR AND CONSERVATION DAY. 



Interest in Arbor Day has steadily increased. In his proclama- 

 tion in 1909, Governor Frear gave the observance of the day a 

 wider scope by terming it "Arbor and Conservation Day," a 

 usage which was repeated this last year. In almost all the schools 

 appropriate exercises are now held each November, with con- 

 siderable enthusiasm. It is to be regretted that not as much can 

 be said of the success of the trees that have been set out. It 

 takes a long time to impart the obvious Arbor Day lesson that 

 to make a tree grow requires something more than to stick it 

 in the ground. But there is a gradual gain, which makes the 

 effort worth while. 



As in former years the Board of Education has cooperated 

 with this Department by paying the freight charges on Arbor 

 Day shipments, as well as in other ways. The Arbor Day exer- 

 cises in the schools were made more interesting and varied both 

 in 1909 and 1910 by the efforts of the Women's Clubs, which have 

 taken up this work in an earnest and active way, furnishing 

 speakers at many schools and helping to devise attractive pro- 

 grams elsewhere. 



In this connection mention may well be made of the wide 

 spread and genuine interest in Conservation that has been mani- 

 fested by several organizations of women in this Territory, not- 

 ably by the Hawaii Branch of the Woman's National Rivers and 

 Harbors Congress and by the Conservation Committees of the 

 Hawaii Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution 

 and the College Club of Honolulu. Among other things prizes 

 have been offered in a number of schools for essays on Conserva- 

 tion, and various meetings held at which creditable papers have 

 been presented dealing with Conservation and Forestry. 



