The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-27
A fine BULLETIN
Valuable Contribution ON Agricul-
tlTG in the Islands.
QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED
Vanilla Bean Best Citrus Trees.
Lanai as An Ideal Station for Ha-
waii-lntereSt of Forestry.

Mr.. Allan Herbert, As Il member of
the Bureau of Agriculture and FOres-
try. will continue to contribute, from
time to time, articles in the interest of
agriculture. He desires TO say that he
is making preparations to have the
Agriculture and Forestry Bulletin is
sued in pamphlet form, handy for fill
ing away for reference. Several gen
tlemen, whose knowledge of horticul-
ture and agriculture on the Hawaiian
Islands entities them TO be heard, will
contribute to the pamphlet, which it
is hoped will be valuable aid to peo-
pie whose business is with the soil.
The pamphlet, which will have
title suggestive of it's mission, will be
issued regularly, at least once month
and oftener if it is deemed practicable.
Announcements regarding the publica-
ton will be made soon in the Oahu
and Hawaii newspapers, whose help
in the matter is solicited.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
"Olaa, The Vanilla bean ought to
thrive in the mOist-Warm climate at
Olaa, climbing on the large native
trees that are left standing among the
coffee. The vanilla is genus of trop-
| zeal climbing orchid and is one of
the most important of the whole family
of orchids on account of the COM
mercial value of it's fruit in the manu-
| facture of the extract which is so uni
versally used
The writer has grown it with success
at Waikiki and produced vanilla pods
| four to five inches long You can grow
it in your garden in Honolulu, if plant
ed in warm, shady. sheltered place.
1t is beautiful climbing orchid with
bright, feshy leaves, and has small
insignificant white flower, succeeded
by pods We shall be more than de-
lighted to give any one what little in
formation we have about this plant.
Higgins best citrus trees
come from Southern California. Trees
that you order from San Francisco will
have to come from there any way. Or
anges, lemons and tomatoes will thrive
in your district. The lime you can
plant from seed, and get better trees
than you could import. Do not waste
your time and labor on seedlings, as
they will not come true, unless you
have nursery and a skilled gardener
You can get twO-year-old trees grated
or hudded for from $100 to $3.50 each
delivered in Hilo. We can give you
the address of dealers that we can
recommend. The trees will be fuml-
gated in tent before they are shipped
Maui The regulations of the Blu
reau of Agriculture allow trees and
plants to be shipped in transit to any
port of the Islands via Honolulu, sub
ject to the usual inspection. These
will be forwarded or condemned as the
case may be.
"Puna''-You can make more money
on the shallow dry land you describe
by planting cOcoanuts. the commercial
Smyrna date, cotton, tobacco, etc. In
our pamphlet there will be a depart
ment, or Bureau of Information, in
which will be told, how to get reliable
seeds.
"Hilo''-The commercial date grows
from seed as readily as coffee.
In regard to cocoanuts from Samoa
we can give you the address of re-
liable party there, or will order then
if you so desire
Kauai Professor Koebele will
visit after his arrival here.
"Lanai''-Papaia seed, sunflower anC
other bright and beautiful flower seed!
| RI
seed.
What an ideal place Lanai would b
for small and large farmers on a CO
operative system. What a lot of happy
and prosperous people by united effor
could settle on that productive island
This could not be attained by the de
tached effort of individuals. In thu
writer's country (SwedeD they have
an agricultural credit association Il
prevent the small land owners from
falling into the hands of the none!
lenders. They advance money only TO
the purpose of agricultural benefits
and the society sees that the money il
expended for the purpose for which
the advance was made. This sOciet,
has an experienced scientist to visi
the small land owners once a month
or perhaps oftener to teach them nev
methods in agriculture.
All sorts of labor saving implement
and better breeds Of cattle are bough
through this association.
SOME GENERAL NOTES.
A number of answers to correspon
dents are left over for the next bulle
tin.
The principal object of our Novembe
visit to Hawaii was to select suitable
location for Government Experiment
al Station and Nursery. Such station
with a competent chemist in charg'
would be of inestimable value TO boil
new and old settlers. From such ;
station. fruit. forest and ornamental
trees could be distributed.
This would be the first step towards
replenishing our forests. We woult
suggest that an avenue of trees b.
planted at once, two rows on each side
of the now excellent Government roaC
through Hamakua, Kohala, and Ovel
the Waimea plains The trees might b.
planted twenty feet apart with ter
feet between the rows For this work
we need not wait for nursery stock