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annually imported from the American mainland and in the na- 

 ture of things this must continue for many years. But there 

 seems no good reason why wood and timber for minor uses, such 

 as posts, ties, rough bridge and flume sticks and the like, should 

 not be supplied from local grown trees. Then, too, fuel wood is 

 an item of very considerable importance on plantations on the 

 windward side of the islands, in localities where the Algaroba 

 will not grow. Windbreak, roadside and ornamental planting 

 also require annually a goodly number of trees of various species. 



To provide a local source of wood supply is so evidently a 

 good business proposition that it does not need any argument at 

 all to prove it so. The main drawbacks to forest planting in Ha- 

 waii are the initial cost and the length of time that must neces- 

 sarily elapse before returns can be got. But on both counts Ha- 

 waii is more fortunate than many places, for even if only fuel is 

 cut, the yields from planted groves are sufficient to make the rate 

 of interest on the investment a satisfactory one. With a longer 

 term investment, yielding a higher grade of wood product, re- 

 turns in Hawaii can, because of the fact that quick growing trees 

 like the Eucalyptus are for the most part the ones used, be got 

 very much sooner than in most places elsewhere in the United 

 States. 



The function of the Division of Forestry in this matter is, first, 

 to make available information as to what, where and how to plant 

 to get the results desired, and second, further to assist the planter 

 of trees by supplying at cost price seed and seedlings of the spe- 

 cies of trees locally most in demand. 



A considerable part of the time of the Forest Nurseryman is 

 devoted to the former work. Information is given out verbally, 

 by correspondence, and through publications. In June, 1912, a 

 new and revised edition was issued of the circular entitled "In- 

 structions for Propagating Forest, Shade and Ornamental 

 Trees." For a detailed account of this phase of the Division's 

 work, the report of the Forest Nurseryman should be consulted. 



EUCALYPTUS BULLETIN. 



Perhaps it is not out of place here to make mention of a bulle- 

 tin entitled "Eucalyptus Culture in Hawaii that was issued in 

 July, 1911, as Bulletin No. 1 of the Division of Forestry. This 

 report, written by Mr. Louis Margolin of the U. S. Forest Ser- 

 vice, gives the results of the investigation carried on in 1910 with 

 the co-operation of the Forest Service, when all the planted 

 groves of Eucalypts in Hawaii were visited and all the informa- 

 tion locally available in regard to this genus got together. An ed- 

 ition of 3,000 copies was printed, so that the bulletin could be 



