ALTHOUGH the section of the Hawaii National Park on the island of Maui includes only the summit of Haleakala, the sections on the island of Hawaii extend from the summit of Mauna Loa, thirteen thousand six hundred and fifty-three feet in elevation, to Kilauea, and on to the seacoast. "From skiing to surfing in one day" could become an accomplished fact. Besides great lava flows, steaming craters, and countless lava tubes, the park contains forests of koa, which produce Hawaiian mahogany of the glowing lighter tints, ohias with their terra cotta pompons of flowers, fragrant sandalwood; fine roads bordered with fuchsias, gaily colored nasturtiums, and blossoms of ginger; well-kept trails through tropical jungles where tree ferns reach a height of forty feet; lower slopes of brightly colored flowers on tree and shrub. The floral profusion of the islands is revealed by the fact that the brilliant hibiscus appears in Hawaii in fifteen hundred varieties.

Sugarcane, of course, is grown commercially on a large scale; and acres upon acres of pineapple clothe the valleys with velvety green. The coconut palm, with its long slanting stem and feathery top, proclaims to the visitor that he is in a strange land.