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Experimenal Garden, Makiki 88 



Basket Willow 88 



Tantalus Forest 89 



List of District Fire Wardens 90 



List of District Foresters 94 



Report of the Consulting Botanist. 



Exploration of the windward side of Haleakala, Maui 95 



Transfer of the Herbarium 97 



Plant protection 97 



Discovery of a Native Hawaiian Rubber-producing tree 98 



Collection of seed for exchange purposes 98 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plate 1. A Hawaiian Protection Forest Frontispiece 



Facing Page 



6. An Irrigation Ditch in the Forest 49 



" 7. Dense Forest on a Ridge in a Watershed .' . . 52 



8. A Hawaiian Forest after fire and grazing 52 



9. Remnants of the Past 52 



" 10. The ultimate result of forest destruction. Kahoolawe . . 52 

 " 11. A Shipment of Seedlings for a Sugar Plantation Company 64 

 " 12. Papapaholahola Sub-Nursery and Experimental Plant- 

 ing Ground, Homestead, Kauai 72 



" 13. Experimental Eucalyptus Plantation, Nuuanu Valley near 



Honolulu 72 



" 14. Eucalyptus Robusta Windbreak, Nuuanu Valley Planta- 

 tion 72 



" 15. Experiment Garden in Makiki Valley 88 



" 16. Potting Shed, Soil Sterilizer and Seedling Benches. Ma- 

 kiki Station 88 



" 17. Willow Baskets Made from Plants Grown at Makiki Ex- 

 periment Garden 88 



" 18. The Koko or Akoko 96 



" 19. Kokia Rockii Lewt. Kokio 96 



" 20. Kokia Rockii Lewt . 96 



2. le-ie Vine on Ohia Lehua Tree 100 



3. The Upper Transition Zone 100 



4. Where the forest gives place to grazing land 100 



5. Fern Undergrowth in the Hawaiian Forest 100 



