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do what planting they desired to, these persons have not applied 

 again. It will be noticed in this connection that the difference in 

 the two years is mainly in the number given out from Honolulu. 

 The establishment of sub-nurseries on the other islands, from 

 which persons in the vicinity can get trees at any time, has also 

 tended to reduce the number of applications sent in to Honolulu 

 for this special distribution. 



TREE PLANTING BY CORPORATIONS. 



One of the most important evidences of the progress of forestry 

 in Hawaii is the growing interest that is being taken in tree 

 planting throughout the Territory, both on a small scale by in- 

 dividuals and in the establishment by certain of the larger cor- 

 porations of regular forest plantations. 



As being of general interest for purposes of comparison, the 

 Division of Forestry has compiled a table giving statistics of 

 tree planting in Hawaii during the past two years. This appears 

 on the following pages. Comparing the totals of trees planted 

 with those given in earlier reports (especially the report of the 

 Division of Forestry for 1908, pp. 27 and 28) it will be seen that 

 there has been a marked gain. The grand totals for the last 

 three years are as follows : 



Total Number of Trees Reported Planted. 



1908. 1909. 1910. 



498,677 597,381 725,022 



It is, of course, to be understood that this table is merely a. 

 record of trees planted and not of forest planting as such. The 

 various entries include trees planted for windbreaks and shelter- 

 belts, for stock shelters, for ornamental purposes, and along road- 

 sides, as well as plantations made with the object of watershed 

 protection and direct commercial return. It is nevertheless of in- 

 terest as showing the large number of trees set out. While nat- 

 urally not all of the seedlings listed will live to become mature 

 trees, it is believed that the greater part of the planting covered 

 by this table was done under conditions that insure the trees doing 

 well. In such a table there must, almost necessarily, be some 

 omissions, but it is believed all the more impoortant projects are 

 included. The figures given were for the most part supplied by 

 the corporations doing the work. Those otherwise obtained are, 

 if anything, over-conservative. The table does not include school' 

 ground planting, nor with the exception of the Homestead plant- 

 ing in Kau, Hawaii, the many small lots, of trees set out by in- 

 dividuals. Taken by and large a record of seven hundred and 

 twenty-five thousand trees planted in one year is not a bad" 

 showing : 



