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The Indian Forest School, etc. 



Progress Report of the Worhing Plans Branch, North- Western Pro- 

 vinces and Oudh,for the Period from 1st April 1883 to 2>lst 

 October 1884, Supplementary to the Progress Report of Forest 

 Administration in the Nortli-Wcstern Provinces and Oudh 

 {School Circle) for 1883-84. Home Department (Forests), 

 Simla, the 1st May 1885. 



This report by Mr. E. E. Fernandez, officiating Deputy-Director of 

 the Forest School at Dehra Dun, though the briefest of those which 

 have reached us this season, contains many items of general interest. 

 From measurements and ring countings of deodars in the Dahra Gad 

 Valley, the age of an average tree has been traced up to 210 years. 

 In mapping the Dehra Dun forests, distinctive colours have been 

 adopted to indicate distinctive areas of tree growth. Thus Sal has 

 had green assigned to it ; Sain, carmine ; Sissu, blue ; Bamboos, 

 gamboge, and so on. In the case of two types intermixing on the 

 same area, the one predominating was represented by a flat wash of 

 its own characteristic colour, and the other by parallel lines, also of 

 its own characteristic colour. So, too, when three or more types 

 were mixed, the flat wash was used for the first, and parallel lines, 

 of course, diversely coloured, were used for the others. Owing to 

 the proximity of the forests to the river Ganges and the Ganges 

 Canal, many species of trees, only accounted useful for firewood 

 when farther from the river, are here exported as timber. Bamboos 

 form the chief source of revenue. 



The business of the Forest School engaged a large portion of the 

 superintendent's time, occupying him for more than four hours every 

 day of the session ; and for the same reason, Mr. Brown could only 

 devote about two and a half hours daily to the working plans, while 

 Mr. Clifford could only give ten hours weekly to the same depart- 

 ment. The vernacular forestry course, undertaken for the first time 

 at the school, required special preparation to adapt it to the very 

 limited receptive powers of the men deputed to attend it. But the 

 enormous amount of work accomplished in the Dehra Dun forests 

 was only possible through the aid of the students of the school. 



Planting Trees in School Grounds and the Celebration of Arbor Pay. 

 Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education, Washington, 

 United States. 1885. 



Heee is a first book on educational forestal literature for English 

 readers. Dr. Hough supplies a preface of practical directions for 



