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to their full quota of trees was done in 1912. On the windward 

 side of the plants a double line of Swamp Mahogany (Eucalyptus 

 robusta) was set out, as a windbreak. This experimental planta- 

 tion should yield valuable data in years to come. The species so 

 far planted are as follows : 



E. corynocalyx E. melanophloia E. redunca 



E. crebnct E. microcorys E. rostrata 



E. gomphocephala ' E. microtheca E. rubida 



E. goniocalyx E. miielleriana E. siberiana 



E. leucoxylon E. obliqua E. smithii 



E. lo.rophleba E. pilularis E. tereticornis 



Experimental Plots on the High Mountains. 



Results from the sowing of tree seed in fenced enclosures on 

 Mt. Haleakala and Mauna Kea have as yet been but meager, but 

 enough has been accomplished to indicate pretty clearly that were 

 it possible to give more care and attention to this line of investi- 

 gation much better returns could be looked for. Counts of seed- 

 lings in the seed spot beds in the several plots on both moun- 

 tains made in the summer and autumn of 1911 showed that with 

 a number of species of conifers the percentage of seedlings that 

 had germinated and lived through the first season was sufficiently 

 large to be really encouraging. 



The purpose of sowing tree seed direct was to find out if the 

 seed spot method was at all practicable under the conditions ob- 

 taining in Hawaii and to get an additional line on the behavior 

 of the species tried. No very large returns were expected but as 

 the cost of sowing the seed was very little, it was felt that the 

 effort was justifiable- Experiments of this sort should be contin- 

 ued, for if one or two species of conifers can be found that will 

 grow on the upper slopes of these mountains it will mean much 

 to the Territory. 



Seedlings of the following species were lound, among others, 

 to have germinated and apparently to have started to grow in a 

 number of the plots, both on Maui and on Hawaii ; Finns coulteri. 

 P. contort a, P. ponder osa, P. murrayana, P. insularis, P. sylves- 

 tris, P. radiata, Cupressus arizonica, Libocedrus decurrens, Picea 

 engelmanni, P. parryana, and Pseudotsuga taxifolia. 



The amount alloted by the U. S. Forest Service for experi- 

 mental planting in Hawaii was $750 for the fiscal period ending 

 June 30, 1912. For the present year it is $500. The greater 

 part of the money for this year and last has been expended for 

 the wages of laborers used in planting out and caring for the 

 Eucalyptus in the Nuuanu Valley Plantation. 



