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trusties, for with their help it would be impossible for us to keep 

 the grounds in good condition. 



Congressional Vegetable Seed and Year Bool's. 



During the month of December 1912 we received from Wash- 

 ington, D. C., through Honorable J. K. Kalanianaole, Delegate 

 to Congress, 10,000 packages of vegetable seed and 500 packages 

 of flower seed. The above consignment was all distributed during 

 the year 1913; a similar supply was received in December 1913 

 for distribution during 1914. This seed was sent out to public 

 schools, homesteaders and others all over the Islands. 



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

 culture, also sent by the Delegate, are distributed annually to a 

 list of people interested, throughout the Islands. Seven hundred 

 and fifty books is the quota received. 



Advice and Assistance 



This branch of the work takes up considerable of the writer's 

 time. Calls are made from time to time at the different Military 

 Posts on Oahu, where a great deal of planting of trees, shrubs 

 and vines is going on. The effect of this planting will, in a few 

 years, show to good advantage, as most of the sites of these posts 

 were without shade or shelter w r ith the exception of a tangle of 

 lantana, glue bush and weeds. 



Advice and assistance has been given to the Out Door Circle 

 of the Kilohana Art League Improvement Club, School Officials, 

 and others. Advice by letter is given to people on the other islands 

 and assistance and advice is given to people who make requests 

 by telephone and who call at the nursery personally. The number 

 of these requests has increased considerably during the past 

 two years due principally, there is no doubt, to the increased 

 population, the desire by the officers and men of the different 

 Military Posts to beautify their surroundings, and the general 

 cooperation of individuals with the civic organizations for the 

 beautifying of their respective districts. 



Makiki Station 



At the station the work of mixing and sterilizing all the 

 soil used there and at the main Nursery is done. The ste-nn 

 sterilizer, installed about three years ago, has done excellent 

 work. A great deal of the transplanting and potting of trees is 

 done at this station. All the new introductions, after being 

 started at the main nursery are sent to this station and grown 

 in pots until they become large enough to be set out in a perman- 

 ent position. 



Along the trail leading up to Sugar Loaf Hill samples of the 



