The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-06-19

was one of Importance, and although
not one of his hobbies he took much
interest in it. When the Minister
of Interior was preparing his report
they talked over this thing and he
proposed that they should start
bureau of forestry, but that plan
contemplated an expenditure Of
$50, 900, and when they came to
make up the Appropriation Bill they
concluded to let it remain as before.
He would like, however, to have that
idea considered by the Assembly.
There was very excellent work done
there, but they had been expending
money every session-he did not re-
member exactly, but the aggregate
must be overlS50, 900, not all at that
particular place, but money had been
expended since 1864. There could
be no question about the Importance
of the subject. With the decline Of
forests the people declined with the
increase of forests there was a favor
able chance for the people to in
crease. There had been very good
work done, and without compensa-
ton, and it might be worthy of con-
slderation whether they were having
the work done to the best advantage
for forestry on an extended scale.
As the hon. member for Lihue had
stated, the session was for advanced,
but he thought they would have time
to look into the matter more thor
oughly. Along with the excellent
work being done by the gentleman
referred to, he would be glad if
they could have something like the
perfect system of Germany. There
fore he would move that this matter
be referred to special committee.
There were several who had spoken
on the subject-the hon. members
for Lihue, Koolauloa and Molokai-
who would he prepared to give their
most earnest attention to the mat
ter. If he thought the time was
too short, he should vote to pass the
item, but he was convinced that the
matter could have very careful
attention.
Noble Bishop said the'mattcr had
awakened quite a general interest,
and he was glad to see it. At the
beginning forest cultivation, es-
pecially if you depend upon exotics,
will for many years be matter of
experiment. What had been done
for few years past, either in pri-
vate way or in this nursery, had
been with foreign plants. Trying
to make forest with our native
trees had so far been failure. So
that beginning with foreign trees, it
is matter of experimenting IA few
years to find species adapted to our
soil and climate. Forest planting
has been going on at Lhue planta-
ton for six or seven years under
charge of German forester, with II
number of assistants constantly y en-
| ployed. He knew that many of the
experiments there had been failures,
having seen many of them in Janu-
ary and been disappointed. The
forester himself had great deal to
learn, coming from different soil,
different climate and different con-
ditions altogether. Mr.. Jaeger had
been living here great many years
before he undertook this work for
the Government. He had been ex-
perimenting on his own grounds.
He has fair knowledge of botany
and taste for tree planting, and
has been perhaps as good a man as
could be employed if they had gone
abroad for man. He has trees
and plants from many countries,
and some of them had failed, but he
was still going on with the expert
ment. If anything was to be tried
different from what is being done,
they wanted law which should be
carefully studied, and he did not
think there was time to do it this
session. AS the experiment seemed
to be going on prosperously he
should favor the appropriation of
this $4,000.
Rep. Kaulukou was in favor of
this appropriation if they had plenty
money, but they were constantly
hearing the cry that there is no
money for necessary purposes. This
is splendid plan for people who
are laying out their grounds. They
can get rare trees and plants for
nothing. When Hawaiian lady
goes out there for plants she is re-
fused. He knew of an instance the
other day, when some Hawaiian
ladies went out to Mr.. Jaeger and
asked for few plants, but he said
he was not quite ready. The very
same day some white ladies went out
and he dug out plants at once for
them. He was in favor of covering
our hills with forest but not in that
way. This was good plan for
some to get rare plants, flowers and
trees for their premises. That costs
a good deal, but get the Government
to carry out plan like this, and it
will be much cheaper than paying
for those things out Of their own
pockets. The member for Wailuku
said that he was talking very fool
ishly, but let that member go out
there and get hundred alagate
pears, aud in II few years he would
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