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feet square is large enough for 80,000 trees in 3-inch pots ready 

 to set out, or 150,000 trees in transplant boxes ready to set out. 



Shallow boxes from 3 to 4 inches deep and from 12 to 14 inches 

 by 16 to 18 inches are the size generally used. Empty cases can 

 usually be bought cheaply from grocery or liquor stores, which 

 can be cut into the sizes required. Through the wood merchants 

 shocks for making seed and transplant boxes can be got at a very 

 reasonable figure. The cost of shooks for a box 3 inches deep 

 and 12x16 inches, of which the sides and bottoms are ^ inch and 

 the ends of ^-inch material, averages S l / 2 cents each when or- 

 dered in quantities of not less than 500. The Division of Forestry 

 and also a number of the largest planters in the Islands arc now 

 using the imported shooks. The saving of labor in making boxes 

 from shooks warrants their use in preference to making boxe^ out 

 of empty cases, especially where large numbers of trees are want- 

 ed. Such boxes, being all of equal size, also make it more con- 

 venient and economical when the plants have to be carted a long 

 distance, or shipped by steamer or rail, for the reason that three 

 or four boxes can be nailed together by using a lath at each cor- 

 ner, the boxes being set one above the other just far enough apart 

 to allow the plants room. 



A mistake that is often made by new comers to Hawaii and 

 that ought to be avoided, is the temperate zone method of sowing 

 tree seed in beds and afterward transplanting the seedlings to 

 nursery rows and allowing them to grow until they are several 

 feet high before planting out. The remarkable rapidity with 

 which most trees grow in these islands makes this system imprac- 

 tical except in a few exceptional localities situated at a consider- 

 able elevation in the moist windward districts. Under average 

 conditions in Hawaii trees from 12 to 18 inches high transplanted 

 either into boxes or pots, are the best to use. If handled with care 

 in planting out such plants will receive no set-back and will con- 

 tinue growing right along. 



A box as described will hold, according to the species, from 500 

 to 1500 seedlings of forest trees, or about 50 transplants. Orna- 

 mentals as a rule require more room and are generally planted 

 from the seed boxes into pots of some kind, either a 3 or 4 inch 



