ROUND-TOP TRAIL AND MAP. 
Several days were spent in locating and blazing a new foot-trail on 
Round-Top to carry pedestrian traffic around instead of through the new 
Macadamia nut plantation. The trail varies in grade from 15 to 20 per 
cent, rocky outcrops at its lower end making a uniform grade impossible. 
For the most part the trail traverses dense growths of lantana and occa- 
sional groves of guava or planted koa. 
Some time was devoted to beginning a new plane-table map of the 
Round-Top area, on a scale of 200 feet to the inch, which wilf ultimately 
include the Makiki Nursery and Arboretum. Such a map is needed both 
in planning and in keeping records of tree groups in the Arboretum. 
WAIAHOLE. 
On October 13 a truck-load of trees was taken to the Waiahole plant- 
ing area, among them 100 Catulpa loiigissima, which were immediately 
planted in a solid group near the road. In company with the Superin- 
tendent, a general inspection of the Waiahole plantings was made and 
several progress photographs were taken. The chaulmoogra oil trees 
are doing exceptionally well, the most favorable sign of their thriftiness 
being the total absence of the leaf drying which characterized these 
trees in the nursery stage of their growth. Kauri pine {Agatlils rohusta) 
shows a growth averaging five times as rapid on plowed and cultivated 
land as on neglected grass land. 
VISITORS. 
Mr. L. W. Bryan, Forest Ranger at Hilo, spent some time in the office 
discussing matters pertaining to the Hilo and Kohala Reserves on Hawaii. 
Dr. Skottsberg was given assistance in making a selection from our 
official photographs^ his interest being chiefly in pictures showing types 
and habitants of the native plants. 
Mr. Merriam, of Brewer and Company, called to discuss plans for the 
extermination of wild goats on Kapapala Ranch and the surrounding 
country. Mr. Merriam 's company is willing to make a considerable 
money contribution to any plan which gives reasonable hope of success. 
Mr. J. Gerahty, vegetable-oil chemist of Chicago, called for informa- 
tion on cotton seed production in the Hawaiian Islands. I supplied him 
with the several publications of the U. S. Experiment Station in Hawaii 
on this and related subjects. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Four grass cutters, operating in trespass along the Tantalus road, were 
arrested by Ranger Ellis on October 14 and were given suspended sent- 
ences of 13 months each at the local police court. 
On October 22 I accompanied Dr. Lyon and Ranger Bryan on a general 
inspection of the Manoa Arboretum of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters. 
The great number and variety of species being planted in this arboretum 
should yield much information of value within the next ten years. ' 
On October 23 a letter was sent to a trapper-hunter in the Cascade 
Mountains of Washington with the object of enlisting his services in the 
introduction of the western meadowlark which nests in the vicinity of 
his home, 
A conference was held with the President of the Outdoor Circle to dis- 
cuss a revision of the shade tree ordinance now pending before the Board 
of Supervisors. 
Some time was devoted to work on the photograph collection. 
