The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-04-12
A Visit to the King Street Gov
GTlnGIt Station.
is 4 FREE SUPPLY DEPOT
Thousands of Young Trees-Fruit
and Shade-Grounds Should
Be Improved.

eminent Nursery. From the outside 1t
looks more like a forsaken homestead
than anything else, but that fact gives
no index to the beauties contained in
side the whitewashed fence. To tell
the truth it is one of the prettiest
spots here and is much more fit to be
called a park than any of the places
so-called in Honolulu. 1t contains
trees and shrubs that it would be well
for the people of Honolulu TO get ac-
quainted with. 1t is a place that
strangers from abroad would think Of
visiting the very first thing if they
knew anything at all about it, The
very best way 10 advertise one Of the
best attractions of the place would be
10 fix it up so that people would care
10 go there. As it stands now only
people interested in botany and all that
goes with il would visit the place,
whereas it should be made a spot Of
public interest Ask the majority of
people in the city about the Govern
ment Nursery and what viii be the
consequence? They will ask you in
establishment where the place is.
For the benefit of all it might be
said that the Government Nursery is
very close TO the turn to the Waikiki
road on King street and may be easily
found if one seeks out a large banyan
tree on the town corner and for an
other of the Chinese species a little
farther in.
Just at the present time sidewalk
is being placed about the grounds and
it is to be hoped that this will soon
lead TO new fence and new gates and
new walks, so that the stranger COM
ing to Honolulu will know where the
Government nursery is.
A person has to enter the place from
the back. The front part is too unin-
viting and, aside from that, it is diff
icUlt to find an opening in the fence
large enough to admit a person, much
less q carriage. The forester's house
is 10 the rear and everything else Of
important is to the rear.
About IS months ago, D. Haughs,
Scotchman by birth, took charge of
the place and still remains at the
helm Previous to the time stated he
was in charge of the nursery on Tanta-
lus and previous to that, he was in
charge of the nursery up in Naalehu
to which place he had been sent by
VIM. G. Irwin from the botanical gar
dens in Edinburgh, Scotland.
you ask me what my greatest work
has been since I connected myself
with this place and l answer truthfully
that it is the raising of trees for dis
tributiOn to different parts of the city"
said Mr. Haugh. when l first came
here it was impressed upon my mind
that the people of the city wanted
trees and the more I got planted the
better. Of course, you know that We
do not raise any flowers" here and
that anything besides trees for planting
out. are out of order
TO start with, l will give you list
of what l consider to be the most i'm
pOrtant trees on the place. I will men
ton first of all the ritonia saliquay,
the algaroba or craI bean, from which
is made the st Johns bread People
here think that they have the true
algaroba in the tree that grows so COM
monty about the city and suburbs, but
they have not. The true algaroba as
ii is found on the nursery grounds. is
a tree that has rather prominent leaf,
very much like that of the acacia. It
is a beautiful foliage tree and if il
does well here, viii prove one of the
most valuable OF trees. The first bean
that has come to maturity in the ISL
ands is to be found here and nothing
is guarded with more care than is
this one bean. The beans are used in
the country from which the plant
comes, for both man and beast and
is said to be enc of the most whole
some food stuffs known. In appear
ance, the fruit is very much like the
common algaroba bean found here, but
a little thicker, and if anything, a lit
tie shorter. To the taste, they are
sweet, like the ordinary algaroba beans
If the tree is a success here it will be
planted extensively for distribution.
The tree now so commonly known as
algapoba, is native of Mexico.
We'll, to digess from this a bit,
might say that the palm trees have
the largest demand of any here. Not
a day passes but some one comes to
ask for palms. They seem to be salts
fed with any kind, just so they are
palms. Of course, you understand that
al the palms are raised from seeds
and they grow in excellent shape too.
There is no need whatever for a pro
pagating house The propagating is
all done out in the open air. That is
the advantage OF this country.
4 might mention the ironwood tree
next TO the palms. Just lately, a large
number of seeds were collected from
the trees at Kapiolani park and, after
having been dried We're planted in
the boxes that you see here in album
dance. They are valuable tree and
are being planted extensively in Nuu-
anu where they are considered as the
best wind breaks. They are very strong
at the same time. can be swayed here
and there without a damage. The
Government has ordered a great many
more for Nuuanu and I am being kent
very busy planting the seeds.
Now, as we are passing around the
grounds I might point out to you the
taxodioum Mexicanum, the Montezema