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by Mr. W. Hannestad, forester for the Maui Agricultural Co., in 

 connection with the extensive tree planting that he has been doing 

 on the privately owned lands of that company lying just to wind- 

 ward of the Government tract. This private forest at Kailiili 

 constitutes the largest area of artificially established forest in 

 the Territory. Eucalypts of several different species have been 

 the trees used, and since in almost all the stands the trees are 

 close spaced, the result is true forest planting. The Kailiili 

 forest should be of great value in years to come to the Maui Agri- 

 cultural Company, not only for fuel but as well and more particu- 

 larly for posts, railroad ties and other timber. 



The experimental planting above Wailuku has been carried 

 on for the Division of Forestry by the Wailuku Sugar Company 

 in connection with other planting which that company has been 

 doing on the foothills back of the plantation. Plots of the fol- 

 lowing species of Eucalypts have been planted : E. corynocalyx, 

 E. diversicolor, E. salignek, and E. tereticornis. 



The purpose here is the same as at Kailiili, to try out trees 

 new to Hawaii, under a variety of conditions. The project has 

 had the personal supervision of Mr. H. B. Penhallow, manager .of 

 the Wailuku Sugar Co., who has taken the greatest interest in 

 getting trees started on all the waste, upper lands of the plantation 

 from Waihee to Maalaea Bay. 



On Oahu the experimental plantation of Eucalypts in T^uuanu 

 Valley, started in 1911 with funds supplied by the IT. S. Forest 

 Service, may now be regarded as established. During the past 

 two years all the blanks in the original planting have been filled 

 and the little trees kept free from grass until they grew large 

 enough to take care of themselves. There have been no serious set 

 backs in this plantation through the trees dying or from other 

 reasons. From it valuable data should be secured in later years 

 as the trees develop. 



The other locality on Oahu where experimental tree planting 

 has been done is Makiki Valley, where in the vicinity of and in 

 connection with the experimental garden maintained by the Divi- 

 sion of Forestry, many species of trees new to Hawaii have been 

 started and planted out. 



On Kauai, above the sub-nursery maintained by the Division 

 of Forestry at Homestead, in the Papapaholahola Spring Re- 

 serve, blocks of a number of forest trees have been planted and are 

 thriving. Especially to be noted here are the stands of Sugi or 

 Japanese Cedar (Cryptomeria Japonica'), a tree that .when 

 planted in the right localities is bound to be of great value in the 

 Islands. The local nursery at Homestead, as well as the experi- 

 mental planting, is being looked out for by Mr. Walter D. 



