The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-12-28
A FINE BULLETIN
Valuable Contribution on Agrical-
tHTG in the Islands.
QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED
Vanilla Bean = Best Citrus Trees.
Lanai as An Ideal Station for tia-
wail-lnterest of Forestry.

Mr.. Allan Herbert, as a 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, win
contribute to the pamphlet, which it
is hoped will be a valuable aid to peo-
pie whose business is with the soil.
The pamphlet, which will have
title suggestive of its 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 a 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 its fruit in the manu-
faeture 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 a warm, shady, sheltered place.
1t is a beautiful climbing orchid with
bright, leshy 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 $1.00 to $1.50 each
oir
the address of dealers that we can
recommend. The trees will be fum1-
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 depart
ment. or Bureau of Information, in
which will be told, how to get reliable
seeds
from seed as readily as coffee.
In regard to cocoanuts from Samoa,
we can give you the address of a re-
liable party there, or will order them
if you so desire.
"Kauai''-Our Professor Koebele will
visit after his arrival here
Lanai''-Papaia seed, sunf1ower and
other bright and beautiful flower seeds
to cheer you, and choice vegetable
seed
What an ideal place Lanai would be
for small and large farmers on CO.
operative system. What a lot of happy
and prosperous people by united effort
could settle on that productive island.
This could not be attained by the de-
tached effort of individuals In the
writer's country CSweden) they have
an agricultural credit association to
prevent the small land owners from
falling into the hands of the money
lenders. They advance money only for
the purpose of agricultural benefits,
and the society sees that the money is
expended for the purpose for which
the advance was made. This society
has an experienced scientist to visit
the small land owners once a month
or perhaps oftener to teach them new
methods in agriculture.
All sorts of labor saving implements
and better breeds of cattle are bought
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 November
visit to Hawaii was to select suitable
location for Government Experiment.
al Station and Nursery. Such station
with a competent chemist in charge
would be of inestimable value to both
new and old settlers. From such g
station, fruit, forest and ornamental
trees could be distributed.
This would be the first step toward;
replenishing our forests. We would
suggest that an avenue of trees be