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size of the State of Texas. Under the latest order, the follow- 
ing counties in California are released from quarantine: Fresno, 
Tulare, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and a 
portion of San Luis Obispo, the remainder of the territory made 
free being scattered through Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missis- 
sippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia. 
Mr. Rock’s treatise on Hawaiian plants, mentioned in Forester 
Hosmer’s report in this number, will be interesting and valuable. 
It will contain an enumeration of the native plants collected by 
him, with bibliography and notes upon observations made in the 
field. The native names and uses of the plants will be given, be- 
sides the names of insects feeding on them. 
]\Ir. Rock has received a letter from Dr. J. H. Maiden, govern- 
ment botanist at Sydney, Australia, with identifications of some 
of the Hawaiian eucalyptus. In return he had forwarded to Dr. 
IMaiden a packet containing 86 species of native plants, for which 
the Division of Forestry will receive specimens of natural grown 
eucalyptus which will prove valuable for comparison. 
Reports of divisional chiefs in this number are exceptionally 
interesting, containing withal much valuable information. That 
of the Territorial Forester will give readers at home and abroad 
some conception of the really great work being done in Hawaii 
by the territorial forest service. Little Hawaii may indeed be 
said to approach a parity with Germany in the matter of forest 
culture, of which country the following is said in a late press 
notice received from the Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton : “The Germans recognize that the introduction into their 
forests of valuable trees native to other countries may be de- 
cidedly to their advantage. Although as a rule the forest trees 
best adapted to each region are those which naturally grow in it, 
there are many exceptions.” Our local forestry service is dili- 
gently finding such exceptions for the enrichment of Hawaiian 
forests, as well as sedulously nurturing the many valuable in- 
digenous trees which otherwise were menaced with extinction. 
Mr. David Haughs, the forest nurseryman, in his report to 
Forester Hosmer of the principal work done by him in March, 
mentions a consignment of seed received from Air. Gerrit Wilder, 
