Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1852-07-17

Pacific, is the want of skllfal gardeners );
and how they are to be procured is worthy
of the consideration Of this Society.
The natives are now entirely ignorant. not
only of the first principles of the art Of
making a garden, but of the use of The ne
cessary implements of cultivation, and they
must remain so without teachers There
may be a few foreigners among us capable Of
instructng them in the theory, but have in
quired i'll vain to find one who was willing to
exhibit to them 4 practical illustration Of his
skill for hire
Such being she fact, an effort to induce a
few intelligent German gardeners to emf
CRATE to our shores, (who would find imme-
date and profitable employm feel assur-
ed, | would suggest, as a partial remedy
for our present wants. They would enable
those who have the taste and the pecsniarv
ability, without leisure to bestow personal
attention upon garden, to experiment with
skillful labor, wisely directed, upon the capa-
biities of our soil, and their example, in
preparing the earth, and planting seeds, and
cultivating plants would be initiated by those
who are ignorant.
There are few of the natives, even, who
have not natural taste for the cultivation
of flowers and plants, as is manifested in the
dwarfish specimens OF geraniums and annu-
ais that are seen near to and about their
huts, and they are apt to initiate, as is appa-
rent by their rapid conformity to the habits
and tastes of a foreign race, and could they
but see the results thatwould follow the skill
ful cultivation of garden doubt not they
would profit by it. Human nature is the
same the world over, and remembering, as
do, the effect of the introduction, by myself,
of several varieties Of Towering shrubs and
bushes into district where they were not
common, in inducing others to cultivate simi-
lar plants and improve their qualities and
varieties, / cannot doubt the result would
be the same here. Teachers who would
instruct by example would soon furnish the
islands with skillful Horticulturists.
Other committees of the Society, who are
expected to report son Analyses of Soils, 4"
son Worms and other Injurious Vermin, )"
&c on Seasons" :" SO on Trees and Grasses"
' on Garden Seeds and Fruits, will probably
enlarge upon the details of practical garden
ing, and would not trespass on the ground
assigned to them. The nature of our soil,
its deficiencies and peculiariles the kinds
of noxious vermln that trespass onour plants
and shrubs, of which we are all compara-
lively ignorant who have emigrated from
northern climates the seasons, which are
as marked here as where the thermometer
ranges down to zero the trees and grapes,
that can successfully be cultivated in this
latitude and upon our soil !; and the seeds
and fruits that are indigenous and which can
be successfully imported, all merit the care
full investigation of the practical Horticul-
turist, and it is to be hoped that from year
to year individuals will be found ready and
willing TO enlighten us upon those subjects.
Without a knowledge of them all the prac-
iical gardener, however industrious and skill
lul in the use Of tools, will labor without
profit.