Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-30
TIMELY Hints
OF BEAUTIFYING
CITY ARE GIVEN
Henry Castle Declares Homo.
lulu Has Matchless 0ppor-
tunity for Improvement

Honolulans interested in city plan
ming and the Identification Of their
civic home had splendid opportunity
last Saturday afternoon to gather time
ly hints from a man whose Iife-,ons
studies and travels have made him
a foremost authority.
Henry Castle, cousin of the Homo.
lulu Castles and a resident Of Nor
folk, Virginia, spoke before an inter.
ested gathering last Saturday after
noon at the home of Mrs. F. j. Low.
rey, head of the Outdoor Circle. He
spoke not only of civic Identification
in general. but of what may he done
in Honolulu. Not the least interest
ing part of his talk was his descrip.
tion of what has been done in Norfolk
showing what can be done elsewhere
Among the points he made which
are of special local application are the
following:
"Punchbowl crater can be made a
thing of perennial beauty. incompara-
Bile In its class the world over, bv q
good driveway around the rim. the
saucer converted into a huge tropical
flower garden and the Identification
carried down the outside slope II the
point which the Japanese have reached
in their admirable intensive cultiya-
ton.
THAT grass catching bag On yoiir
lawn mower should be DESTROYED. Ho-
nolulu householders, in thus gathering
nm the cut grass and carting II away
or burning it, make great mistake
common to thousands of others on the
mainland. Your lawns need that cut
grass. 1t is not debris but the very
best kind OF fertilizer.
"Honolulu homes are noted for the
luxuriance of their shr1;,bery and
trees. In some instances there are
really too many trees and too dense
shrubbery. There should he as much
OF more sun-kissed lawn than shrubs.
almost every yard has q good dis.
tant view. Don't hide that distant
point with trees and shrubs II you
can helD It. Use the shrubbery to-
cover other parts Oh the grounds that
NAV not be SO attractive to the eye. u
you can see Diamond Head. or Punch
bowl. or any of the mountain ranges
Irom your lawn, keep that view omen
"The central marking STRIP alonc
KaIakaua should be continued to the
End Of the tboroughfare.
sfn future street planning. four-fcot
,trins Of ereensward should be provid-
ID for. between the sidewalk and the
,urb. In these sflonid DO planted sIIch
.rees as tue monkeypod or the Jana.
,ese maidenhair, so they may snr1e
Law arch hieh over the street and fu--
fish grateful shade for the passershv
"Citv planning for identification
,hould he conducted by law. authorize
~ the Legislature and the city com
IL and carried forward in an orean.
zed. cooperative, uniform manner IT
! certain raint property owners shorId
,e under the supervision OF the hosv
,aying charge of such city planning
hat the work may he made uniform
or without some uniformity there can
,e no beauty
.'Kalakaua avenue in Honolulu
hould be parked to the end o. inc
said Mr.. Castle. "anr
he nronerty owners along its lengte
houid be induced to plant shade trees
4 one of the large, permanent KIND
inside their fences. This is because !
q provlsicn was made when the ave
Iue was laid out, fer parking strip
etween the sidewalk and curb