Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-03-02
BOTANIC GARDENS
FOR HONOLULU
Consul Davis Suggests This
and Development of Other
Resources.

1T is disgraceful that Honolulu does
not have botanical garden; these
gardens are the attractions throughout
all English and Dutch possessions in
the tropics, and there is chance here
for one which. would be the greatest
attraction OF the whole island" said
Vice Consul Chester A. Davis of Cey-
Ion in talking with Bulletin re-
porter this morning.
Hawaii has such an opportunity for
a thing of this kind, and in the Far
East the gardens are the most attrac-
tive places to visit which the tourist
encounters
Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Ba
tavia, Sourabaya, all have their gar
dens, which are famed throughout that
part of the world, and Honolulu might
have here such gardens as would be
the talk of the whole United States.
Part of Kapiolani Park might be
used for the purpose OF any other
easily accessible spot, and the matter
in the hands of some hustling young
man here would be. great credit to
the city"
Mr.. Davis has visited the spectacu-
lar gardens of the Orient, and for two
years he lived in Colombo where some
of the finest and largest gardens IN
the world are located and kept up by
the government.
In all the ports from Singapore on
in that part of the world the first at
traction spoken of and pointed out to
the tourists is the botanical gardens.
All the literature of the cities speaks
first of this beauty spot which should
be visited.
Then it seems to me-" said Mr. Da-
Wis, that there are so many things
which might be developed here 20
which no attention is paid at present. |
Sugar seems the all absorbing topic !
of conversation, and the end to which
everyone works here.
There are other crops which might :
be developed and which would bring
in sood incomes on land which is not
suited to sugar and which never could |
grow that staple.
why is it that there is no rubber,
CocoanutS, cotton, tea tobacco or coff
fee raised here on a large scale?
In some. of these lines a little has
been done, but not enough to amount
to anything. Surely these hills would
raise tea, and that staple might be-
come a great article of export from
Hawaii and make the Islands famous
as even Formosa and Ceylon are now
in that industry.
In rubber you here are doing prac-
tically nothing, and that is another
thing which could be developed on IA
large scale. Rubber is a big paying
Investment to the company that puts
in the plantation, and Hawaii ought
to raise its share of this commodity.
Cotton and tobacco, | understand,
you are doing something with, but
each of these industries might be gone
lHto OH Il ldTBCT scale WIN immense
profit.
Nov cocoanuts. They cost but lit
tie to raise, and they, or the copra
from them, form one of the chief ex-
ports of Ceylon. The trees bear in !
about seven years, and then they keep
on almost indefinitely"
Mr. Davis is an enthusiastic expo
nent of trade promotion, as his re-
marks would Indicate, and he sees
many opportunities going to waste
here which might be turned to profit
easily.
The vice-cCnsul is returning to the
United States after two years in CO.
lombo, and he is slated for a post in
China at the expiration of his leave.
1t may be that he will be one of the
consuls detailed to be present at the
coronation within few months to
which John Hays Hammond has been
appointed as the official representative
Of the United States