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* As was expected, many of these grafts and buds died without 
showing any signs of vitality, while of the thirty or forty experi- 
ments made, some ten or twelve sprouted, throwing out two or 
more leaves from each bud. But one yis another, they eges 
and died , leaving a single plant, which ni the start seemed to. 
give good eld and rapidly repai into a healthy hill. This 
nursery was located in the- Sine of what became a- hundred acre 
field of Lahaina edi and when the young plants had grown so as 
to cover the ground, this sole survivor of the nursery began to 
attract notice on account of its desk and straight leaves. As time 
went on, it became so conspicuo 8 that passers- 6 would stop and 
enquire the cause of this unusual & ight. Its wth was quite 
it, it stood like a sentinel alone in the middle of the field, It 
finally ripened into a hill of forty tio stalks, not one of which 
was less than eight feet, and from that to ten feet in length, and 
of large girth. 
*'The late Charles N. Spencer, then manager of the Hilea 
plantation, a few miles distant, was greatly interested in this new 
prodigy, and obtained a portion of the stalks, which were planted 
on the higher lands of that plantation, where, in the course of two 
or three yearg,'he had a field of two hundred acres of it growing 
at an elevation of 1800 feet. From six hills of his first planting, 
he cut 226 stalks for seed, some of the stalks being twelve feet in 
length. He beoe d the best upland cane he had,and named 
it ‘Ko Wini’ ‘Whitney Cane.’ In Hamakua it has been 
called the ‘ Yellow NA but this is identically the same vine 
as the hybrid originated by the writer. It has been planted on 
lands in various districts of Hawaii, but it has nowhere dani s 
well as in its native soil and climate of Kau. But for the object 
intended—a profitable upland cane—it has proved a boon to Kau, 
its birth place and home. 
* Since the above was written, we have been informed by the 
local officers of the Pahala Plantation (Hawaiian Agricultural Co.), 
that they have been so well pleased with this hybrid cane, that 
they prefer it to other kinds. "The value that they place on it may 
be inferred from the sept made by the Fine that of the 
have 2854 acres of Whitney cane, 512 acres of tune and 654 of 
Rose Bamboo. And the outcome of sugar has been raised from 
4000 tons of former years to 8000 tons as their last crop, and 
planted on land above the famous land-slide or * mudflow 
of 1868, at an elevation of about 2200 feet. This field is a most 
remarkable one, showing some of the finest cane ever seen in the 
district. "These results are certainly very gratifying to the 
Mise of this hybrid cane, and creditable to the intelligent 
nagement of the esiate, which has utilized the valuable dis- 
co UNE. so as to make Pahala plantation one of the best sugar 
properties in this group." 
