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EUCALYPTUS INVESTIGATION. 
Having completed the field work incident to the investiga- 
tion of the groves of planted Eucalyptus on Hawaii, Maui, 
Oahu, and Kauai, Mr. Louis Margolin returned to Honolulu 
early in April to work up the data and prepare his report. 
This he completed just prior to his departure for California 
on May 8, where he returns to take up his regular work in 
the Forest Service. Before the report can be made public it 
must receive the formal approval of the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture. Immediately upon the return of the manuscript from 
MAshington, I recommend that the report be published as a 
bulletin of the Division of Forestry. The report brings to- 
gether all the local information now available about the genus 
Eucalyptus, and contains definite recommendations that to- 
gether canno't but be of great value to tree planters in Hawaii. 
FOREST PLANTING IN PROGRESS. 
Under the contract made in March with Mr. C. G. Owen, 
tree-planting has been actively going on on Water Reserve 
C, of the Pupukea Homestead Tract. The trees have been 
shipped from the Government Nursery at Honolulu at the 
rate of 2000 per week. 
Through an arrangement with the Federal Forest Service, 
a tract in Xuuanu Valley has been laid out for the experi- 
mental planting of Eucalypts, the cost to be borne from 
Federal funds. The actual planting of trees will commence 
in June; the ground is now being made ready. 
Forest plating under the auspices of this Division is also 
about to be started on a portion of the Makawao Forest Re- 
serve, IMaui. The Alaui Agricultural Company has agreed to 
replant an open area above Kailiili in return for the right to 
remove dead trees now standing on the land which can be used 
for fuel. Preliminary arrangements have been completed and 
detailed plans are now in preparation. This planting also will 
consist mainly of Eucatypts. A number of different kinds 
will be planted in blocks of several acres each, so that as the 
groves grow they will be of no small value for purposes of com- 
parison. 
Trees for forest planting by corporations and individuals 
are constantly being sent out from the Government Nursery. 
^Ir. Haughs’ report for April enumerates some of the more 
important shipments made during that month. 
PLANTING PLANS. 
The making of planting plans for individuals and corpora- 
tions and the giving of advice in regard to tree planting is one 
of the important lines of w'ork of the Division of Forestr^x In 
