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Report of the Forest Nurseryman 



Honolulu, Hawaii, December 31, 1914. 



Albert Waterhouse, Esq., 



Acting President and Executive Officer, 



Board of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Dear Sir: I herewith submit a report of the work done 

 during the years 1913 and 1914. 



NURSERY. 



Collection and Exchange of Seed. 



The collecting of seed has been continued, and the two men 

 employed have been kept busy at this work and at time assisted 

 in packing up trees as well as collecting fruit and other material 

 for the Entomologists. The seed collected in this manner is used 

 for propagating purposes at the Government Nursery in Hono- 

 lulu, and sub-Nurseries on the other Islands. The homesteaders 

 and others all over the Territory are supplied with a reasonable 

 amount of the locally collected seed free of charge, while the 

 cost price is charged for imported seed which we buy from sales- 

 men abroad. At the request of the officials of Botanic Gardens 

 and other institutions in different parts of the world, we supply 

 seed on the exchange system. In this way we are sometimes 

 able to secure new and rare species which would be difficult to get 

 otherwise. Tourists and others calling at the Nursery are often 

 anxious to take away with them sample packages of seed. Those 

 we supply with a few sample packages free. 



A large quantity of seed collected by Mr. J. F. Kock while on 

 a tour during the early part of 1913 was sown on its arrival and 

 some of the species have already been planted out along the trail 

 leading to Sugar Loaf Hill. Others are in pots at the station. It 

 is too early to make a statement regarding these introductions. 

 Some of them, however, are certainly looking well and are making 

 a good growth. 



The most promising introduction in the line of forest trees 

 which we have been able to procure for a number of years is 

 the Juniperus cedar of Jamaica, introduced by Mr. Gerrit P. 

 Wilder, who sent us the seed while on a tour about four years 

 ago. These trees have been distributed to people living at dif- 

 ferent elevations on the Islands, and reports are coming in that 

 they are doing well. We planted a few of these Junipers along the 



