eceiving attention, particularly the Sisal
Hemp (Agave Sisalana) and Sansevieria or bow string Hemp. The Sisal
plant will grow and flourish on lands that are too dry for any other
cultivation. Many thousands of the plants have been introduced and at
least one plantation is being set out.

The bow string Hemp requires a wet, rich land in order to do well. It
probably yields the best fiber of all the leaf fiber plants.

Ramie (Boehmeria nivea) grows splendidly in this country and after being
well established will yield 4 to 6 crops per annum. Whenever a machine
is invented that will economically decorticate the Ramie fiber, its
cultivation will become an important industry in this country. Ramie
will grow and do well wherever the coffee tree will grow, and whenever
the machine is available, the coffee planter will have a profitable
industry, to go hand in hand with coffee and employ the slack time
between the coffee picking seasons.

Cocoa (Theobroma Cacao) is the tree that produces the fruit from which
chocolate is made. It grows and bears well in moist humid districts, and
many of the coffee planters are setting out numbers of the trees.

There are many other economic plants that are well suited for culture in
this country. The country is entering on a new era, and as the lands
become settled and population increases, many small cultures will become
possible, which will afford many persons the opportunity of making an
easy living in a land of eternal summer.

CHAPTER VI.

DIGEST OF THE LAND ACT OF 1895.

(With reference to unoccupied lands.)

The Land Act of 1895, having for its special object the settlement and
cultivation of the Government agricultural and pastoral land, vested the
control and management of Public Lands in a Board of Three
Commissioners, composed of the Minister of the Interior and two persons
appointed and removable by the President, one of whom is designated the
Agent of Public Lands; but excepting from the control of the
Commissioners, town lots, landings, tracts reserved for Public purposes,
etc., which remain under the control of the Minister of the Interior.

For the purposes of the Act, the Republic of Hawaii is divided into Six
Land Districts, as follows:

1st. Hilo and Puna on the Island of Hawaii.
2d. Hamakua and Kohala on the Island of Hawaii.
3rd. Kona and Kau on the Island of Hawaii.
4th. The Islands of Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe.
5th. The Island of