The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-01-22

OF TREES
Report of Nuuanu
Nursery Eight
Months.

The board OF agriculture anu FOR
estry held Its regular meeting yester-
day, a quorum being constituted by c.
S. Holloway, secretary and executive
officer, w. NJ. Giffard. Jas. d. Dole and
J. F. Brown.
As the first item OF business, M.
Giffard was appointed to act in place
of L. A. Thurston, president, during the
latter's absence from the Territory.
SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTS
Mr.. Giffard orally reported from the
committee. on forests and nurseries.
The new superintendent of forests,
Ralph S. Hosmer, arrived last week in
the steamer Siberia. Whilst he had
not reported to the Board as a whole,
he had done so to the president. At
Mr.. Thurston's suggestion Mr.. Hosmer
Immediately went to Hawaii to investi-
gate forestry conditions in Hamakua
and Kohala. 1t was presumed he
would make report OF his investiga-
tion, and that his further movements
would be decided by the Board in
session.
NUUANU FOREST NURSERY.
Secretary Holloway read a report
from David Haughs, forester, on the
Nuuanu nursery. 1t was read and re-
ferred to Superintendent Hosmer, being
as follows:
Nuuanu Forest Station,
Jan. II, 1904.
To the Honorable Board of Commits
sioners Of Agriculture and Forestry.
Gentlemen: l herewith submit the
following report Of the work done In
reforesting the upper part of Nuuanu
valley from May to December 81, 1908.
a report having been given for the four
months of the year previous to May 1.
At Governor Dole's request report
was made to him for the year ending
June 80. 19O3 the same being now on
file in the office.
For the past year we have had to
rely entirely on what seed could be
collected around here, as there has
been no seed imported for forest pur-
poses. We have got our supply most
ly from the Tantalus forest, where a
number of the trees are now bearing.
On our last visit to the forest We found
the following species in seed: Eucalyp-
tus, Citriodora, f. Calophylla, e. Ro-
busta and +. rostiata, and by making
a thorough search many more of the
species of this family might be found
bearing seed. Other kinds of trees
may also be found bearing in forest,
such as different species of the Casuar-
ina, Syncarpia laurifolia and others,
all of which are good forest trees, al
though most of them have been tried
in Nuuanu without much of success,
owing to the heavy winds Still they
ought to do well in less exposed places.
We have found in many instances that
seed collected from the trees growing
here is more satisfactory than import
ed seed of the same kind. In the first
place, a larger percentage of the seed
collected here will germinate than i'm
ported seed. Then again the trees
from which the seeds have been taken
are acclimated and the plants from
such trees are likely to make a faster
growth to begin with.
The planting done in Nuuanu during
the past eight months has been con-
fined to the lower slopes on a piece
This piece of land is n little less eX-
posed to the wind than the land higher
UP and consequently the trees are max
ing a faster growth. The percentage
of trees that have died on this piece or
land so far Is very small not over one
per cent. The same system has been
followed as on the other lands, namely.
planting six feet by six feet, making
1910 trees per acre.
The following are the number ana
varieties of trees planted during the
past eight months: $500 Acacia Mela-
noxylon, 5000 Casuarina equisetifolia,
5000 Grevillea robusta, 1000 Eucalyptus
robusta, 100 Ochrosia Sandwicensis.
Trees to the amount OF $1,000 remain
in nursery. The varieties are as fol-
lows: Acacia Melanoxylon, Casuarina
equistifolia, C. quadrivalvis, c. Subrosa,
C. Torulosa, Eucalyptus Calophylla, f..
robusta, Grevillea robusta, MAZDA Sand
wicensis Gama), Ochrosia Sandwich
sis (HoleD,
Respectfully submitted,
DAVID HAUGHS,
Forester.