Congressional Vegetable Seed and Year Books. 



During the month of December, 1911, we received from Wash- 

 ington, D. C., through Hon. J. K. Kalanianaole, Delegate to Con- 

 gress, 10,000 packages of Congressional Vegetable seed and 300 

 packages of flower seed. The consignment received in December, 

 1912, contained about the same number of packages. The de- 

 mand for vegetable and flower seed is increasing and the supply 

 for 1912 was all distributed several months before we received 

 the supply in December, 1912, intended for 1913. This seed is 

 sent out to public and private schools, homesteaders and others 

 all over the islands. 



Copies of the Year Book of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, also sent by the Delegate, are distributed annually to a care- 

 fully made up list of persons throughout the Islands. Seven hun- 

 dred and fifty books is the quota received. 



Experimental Garden, Makiki. 



Since our last biennial report we have found it necessary to 

 enlarge the quarters. The old iron roofing taken from the office 

 building at the Nursery on King Street was used for this purpose. 

 An additional shed for storing pots, box shocks, etc., has been 

 added to the buildings. A building 60 feet long by 24 feet wide 

 has taken the place of the old potting shed and tool house. In 

 this building the bins for holding soil, sand, manure, tin cans and 

 pots of different sizes for potting of plants are conveniently ar- 

 ranged. The soil sterilizer is also under the same roof, with suffi- 

 cient space for mixing and preparing soil. The additions and im- 

 provements to buildings have proved to be of great benefit in many 

 ways. It would have been almost impossible to fill a number of 

 the large orders from the plantation companies without this addi- 

 tional room. The work was all done by our regular men. The 

 men at the Nursery assisted as much as possible. All of the soil 

 and sand used at the Garden as well as at the Nursery for propa- 

 gating trees is mixed and sterilized here. With the addition of a 

 propagating house similar to the two at the Nursery we would 

 have the best of facilities here for propagating plants in large 

 quantities. 



Basket Willow. 



For the past two years the Garden has been used principally 

 for propagating plants, some of which deserve special mention. 



The Willow cuttings brought from Portugal about three years 

 ago by Dr. L. R. Caspar and handed to us by the Honorable A. 



