24 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1899. 



is a favorite dish of the native Hawaiian. This dish was 

 accompanied by various vegetables. 



We have here the native grass house. Attached to this 

 house was Camp Otis where 8000 of our troops were stationed. 

 The major was making a tour of inspection, and invited me to 

 accompany him. This shows another section of the tield, in 

 which tiie men are drilling. I saw a number of New York 

 troops stationed at this stand who were anxious to have mc take 

 their pictures to send home to their friends. Here we have 

 some New York troops sitting under trees eating their mess, 

 which was hardly suited to the country. The government did 

 not provide fruit and vegetables, although the country afforded 

 plenty of both. The hospital was crowded with soldiers who, 

 as a result of the food, in such a climate, had become sick. 

 Most of the troops came on the Arizona, and were intended for 

 Manilla, but were left over. The natives arranged a dance for 

 the entertainment of the officers of the Arizona. 1 was invited 

 to be present, going in a party with the correspondent of the 

 Sau Francisco Call. The natives are fond of singing and danc- 

 ing. They took two calabashes, and by clashing them together, 

 produced a hollow sound which accompanied their dancing. 

 The natives at once appeared with lays of flowers and some of 

 them in native dress. 



This is one of the streets which is lined with beautiful resi- 

 dences, and bordered with Century plants. Here we have 

 another of these residences showing palms and also fine groups 

 of beautiful ferns about the house growing luxuriantly. This 

 also shows palms and ferns which one finds in going up this 

 valley, and in suburbs of Honolulu palms are grown extensively. 



This picture shows a native picnic. A party of ladies mak- 

 ing lays of these native flowers to carr^y home to their friends 

 are sitting under a Hyl)iscus tree. 



This gives an idea of the rich vegetation of the valley. Here 

 are beautiful tree ferns and Hybiscus, which looks like Man- 

 grove. The flower is yellow with a white centre. The valley 

 terminates twelve hundred feet above Honolulu in a precipice 

 nearly one thousand feet steep. This is a view of the valley, 



