The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-09

4 been received from Puuwaawaa. Seed
has also come in from Australia and
| from California in experimental guam
titles. which viii be carefully tested in
various parts of the Territory. A suffi-
| ficient quantity of the following seed
| has been received to enable it to be
put on sale at the following prices:
Monterey cypress, Cupressus macro-
| carpa, at 10 cents per ounce.
Blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus, at 30
cents per ounce.
Australian black wood Acacia me-
| Ianoxylon, at 80 cents per ounce.
| The collection OF seed of native and
, exotic trees in and around Honolulu
has been continued. The seed colleete !
| being mainly of the kinds of trees list
| ed in Press Bulletin No. 1.
During the month the library of the
| Board has received a number of i'm
portant accessions, among which spe-
| cial note may be made of 1.-The Proceed
ings of the Washington Academy of
Sciences and a complete set of
| '"Thrum s Annual Accompanying
| this report is a list of the magazines
and current periodicals received regu-
| larly by the library.
I The library has been twice used dur
y
18th a meeting of the chronological
Society, and on May 22nd a meeting
of the Research Club, at which DR..
Walter H. Evans delivered a paper on
the work of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
DR.. Evans is the Chief of the Divis-
ion of Insular Stations in the office of
the Experiment Stations of the Agri
cultural Department and visited Homo
lulu to inspect the Hawaiian Expert
ment Station.
Another visitor to Honolulu of whom
note should be made was Mr.. Ralph c.
Bryant, formerly Assistant Chief of the
Bureau of Forestry at Manila, who
stopped for a day en- route to the coast.
During the month the Office building
has been screened, ventilators have
been cut in the ceiling of each room
and awnings have been placed over
each window, greatly increasing the
comfort of the members of the staff.
The reports of the field foreman
show in detail the work which has
been done by his section during the
past month.
RALPH S. HOSMER,
Superintendent of Forestry
List of periodicals regularly received
missioners of Agriculture and Forestry
California Cultivator, Los Angeles
and San Francisco.
California Fruit Grower, San Fran
cisco.
Pacific Fruit World, Los Angeles and
San Francisco.
American Agriculturist, New York.
Rural New Yorker, New York.
Science, New York.
Java Suikerindustrie, Java.
Agricultural News. Barbados.
Up To Date Farming, Indiana.
Gleanings in Bee Culture, Medina,
Ohio.
Crop Reporter, Washington, d. c.
India Rubber World, New York.
Rural Californian, Los Angeles.
Agricultural Gazette, Tasmania.
The Mackey Mercury, Queensland.
Farm Journal, Philadelphia.
Forestry and Irrigation, Washington,
d. c.
The Journal of Agriculture Of Vic
toria, Melbourne.
The Agricultural Gazette, New South
Wales.
Journal Department of Agriculture,
Western Australia.
The Journal of the Jamaica Agricul !
tural Society.
Tropical Agriculturist, Ceylon.
Imperial Department of Agriculture,
West Indies.
West Indian Bulletin.
Popular Science Monthly.
chronological News, Philadelphia. !
Journal D'Agriculture Tropicale,
Paris.
Australian Official Journal of Pat
ents, Melbourne.
dor rTrOnannfianzpr berlin
L'Agriculture Pratique des pays
chands, Paris.
The Bulletin of The College of Agri- !
culture, Toxic, Japan.
Entomologists Monthly Magazine,
London.
Forestry Quarterly, Ithaca, New
York.
The Indian Forester, Allahabad, In
dia.
Indian Planting and Gardening, Cal
cutta
The above magazines are open to the
inspection of the public in the library
room of the Board of Agriculture and
Forestry, Government nursery grounds,
daily during office hours.