The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-10-28
.AEL READY FOR
TREE PLANTING
Forestry Department Has 3d.
600 Ready for Distribution
on Arbor Day.
(From Thursdavls Advertisnr. !

Preparing for Arbor Day IS an ardu.
Gus proposition for the men Of the for
estry service, according to a report on
what is being done rendered by Chief
Forester HOsmer to the board of apri-
culture and forestry yesterday.
Probably $4,000 Juvenile trees are
ready to be set out ON that novel holi.
day and are now awaiting distribution
in the various experiment stations scat.
tered over the Islands. Brother Mat
thias at Hilo, w. d. McBryde at Kauai.
David Haughs in Honolulu snd many
Others are engaged in nursing along the
young and tender lives of what are to
become sturdy or lowering trees, and
1t is expected and hoped that they viii
all be disposed of on the day mentioned.
"Just now" says Forester Hosmer,
anticipating the needs of Arbor Day.
Brother Matthias Newell has ready for
distribution about 10000 trees of va.
riety of species, useful and ornamental
Thanks to the generous cooperation of
the Hilo Railroad and the Volcano Sta
bles Company, boxes containing trees
for Arbor Day planting are carried
free. The newspapers in Hilo have
given publicity to the fact that trees
are to be had, so that there is no reason
why any one in the Puma or Hilo dis
tricts should 60 without. From the
Hilo nursery it is possible to supply
trees to persons from the Volcano House
to Laupahoehoe.
" At the government nursery in Homo
lulu, as has been said in earlier reports,
something over 10000 little trees are
ready TO be given out. In the sub
nurseries there are 10000 at Hilo and
as many more at Homestead, Kauai,
where Walter d. McBryde IS rivaling
Brother Matthias in his interest and
activity in tree growing.
"Trees are also being made ready
for local distribution at temporary sub
stations at Wailuku, Makawao and
Hama, Maui, and at Kohala and Homo.
kaa, Hawaii, and at three or four less
important points on other islands.
General notice has been given in
newspapers and by posters and hand.
bills in several languages, so that no
one who really wants trees and is will
ing to meet the board half way has rea-
son to feel that he has not been given
an opportunity. to get them"
Mr. Hosmer' s report contains a glow
ing testimonial to the work performed
by Brother Matthias at Hilo, he saying:
~ can not pass from this subject
without bearing special testimony to the
disinterested and generous manner in
which Brother Matthias has given his
time, his energy and best thought to
the interests for which this department
stands.
Cloth in forestry and entomology the
board as able, through Brother Matthias,
to carry on work that it could not 9th
erwise do, save at a greatly increased
expense. The people of Hawaii are for
tunate that this board is able to count
on the assistance of so able q collabo-
rator, for the work that he is doing
aids as truly as do more spectacular
achievements to Help Hilo Grow. -
According to the present plans of the
department, twentyfour trees will be
given to every applicant, but no more
than twelve Towering trees are to be
distributed to any one person. Tuesday
was the last day for making application,
the trees to be given out during the sec
ond week in November.
The species on hand are eucalyptus,
ironwood, silk, oak, Monterey cypress,
| golden, pink, and pink and white show
ers, poinciana and jacaranda.