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PEJIBAYE PALM ^SEED 
From the Bureau of Plant Industry during February we received 200 
seeds of the Costa Rican pahn i)ejibaye (Guilielma utilis), which produces 
edible seeds, and on March 22 an additional lot of 500 seeds was received. 
From the latter shipment a quantity was sent to eacli of the other three 
nurseries for pi'opagation. As yet none of the seed sown in the Gov- 
ernment Nursery in Honolulu has germinated. 
PLANTING AT PUPUKEA AND MIKILUA 
Inspections were made during the month of the plantings' at Pupukea 
and Mikilua. At the first place the planting operations for the year 
under co-operative agreement have been completed with the setting out 
of 5,310 koa trees. These have been given a fine start by the favorable 
moisture conditions which obtained there. The recent rains at Mikilua 
have also helped the trees considerably and the logwood and some of 
the banyans and Norfolk Island pines are doing verj^ well in this com- 
paratively dry section. 
AIRPLANE SEED-SOWING 
In connection with the project of the H. S. P. A. to sow seed of the 
Mbreton Bay fig over parts of the west slopoi of the Kioolau Range, on 
Oahu, from army airplanes, I w^as called into consultation^ and advised 
the restriction of such sowing to eroded areas and to regions where 
the native forest was depleted and in need of building up, and not to 
sow any seed over areas where the fully-stocked indigenous forest in 
good condition was functioning satisfactorily as a conserver of w^ater. 
TI LEAF PLANTATION 
In view of the abolition of permits to gather ti leaves in any part of 
the Honolulu Watershed Reserve and the frequent requests received 
from Hawaiians and others for this material for use at luaus, I have 
instructed the Forest Nurseryman to start a small ti leaf plantation 
in an accessible place in one of the Makiki valleys, so that the material 
may ibe supplied in the future without detriment to the forest cover. 
GOLDEN SHOWJ]R PODS 
Some time ago my attention was called to the fact that on the main- 
land the raw pods of the golden shower (Cassia fistula) were sold at 
drug stores as a laxative for $1.00 per pound. In the effort to ascer- 
tain the quality of the pods grown here, and to find a market for the 
large quantity which annually goes to waste, I made a selected ship- 
ment of golden shower pods just ripening on March 21, to Nature 's 
Herb Company in San Francisco. Their report on the quality and price 
which they will pay are awaited with interest. 
OLONA CUTTINGS 
At the request of the Director of the Bureau of Forestry in Manila, 
I forwarded to him on March 14, a quantity of cuttings of the Hawaiian 
fiber plant olona (Touchardia latifolia). The Bureau there is very eager 
to establish this valuable fiber plant in the Philippine Islands. 
RECLAIMING GRASSLAND 
On March 18 an examination was made of the plots in Nuuanu Valley 
where an experiment was begun a year ago to determine whether Hilo 
grass may be shaded out by haole koa trees (Leucaena glauca) established 
by broadcast sowing nnder various conditions. The results are not 
promising, for the number of seedlings had dropped off more than 50 
per cent from what they were six months previously, owing to the 
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