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than the pages of a professional magazine. Passing over eighteen pages 

 of "Reviews," which are discnssed from an Indian point of view with 

 considerable ability, but contain nothing of general interest ; and also 

 omitting several articles of local or minor importance, we give a full 

 extract of an interesting paper by G. H. Foster, Assistant Forest Conser- 

 vator, Central Provinces, on the failure of Eucalypti at Saugor and 

 Garhakota : — 



"Perhaps the accompanying few notes concerning the experiments with 

 Eucalypti, carried on in this division, will be found interesting. In August, 

 1875, Mr. Richardson planted a few seeds in an earthen gumla, they were 'E. 

 globulus, and another kind marked by him " iron bark." This, from its after- 

 growth, seems to have been the same as that marked E. vlminalis, sent 

 from the conservator's office. The plants germinated in September, and in 

 the end of December, 1875, I put them out into baskets according to the 

 conservator's directions. The baskets avoided the necessity of moving the 

 trees a second time, for, being of a perishable nature, they could, when the 

 trees were planted out for good, be put into the ground as they stood, and 

 would during the first rains rot. These trees were all in Saugor. In December, 

 1875, I sowed a great number of seed at Garhakota, of the following eight 

 species : — 



E. globulus, 



E. marginata. 



E. vlminalis. 



E. fissilis. 



E. cornuta. 

 E. sidero,r,ylon. 

 E. rostrata. 

 E. oblkjtia. 



" These germinated at various times up to the end of January very freely, and 

 when in the end of February I commenced transplanting them into separate 

 baskets, I had nearly 2,000. 



" I will keep the two sowings apart — Ist, the Saugor sowing of August, 1875. 

 As before mentioned, I potted these out in baskets in the end of December, 

 1875. I had then twenty-three E. globulus and five or six E. viminalis. I was 

 unable to see much of these, as I was always in camp, but they were carefully 

 tended and watered, and when the hot winds commenced they were put under 

 shelter. The majority grew very well, one E. globulus growing up to four feet 

 in height by May ; but in the end of May they suddenly died. I was out of 

 the station, but my subordinate there reported that they appeared sickly, the 

 top shoot drooped, and then in two or three days they dried up. Two alone 

 escaped. These I planted out in my garden in July. One, E. globulus, died ; 

 and the other, E. viminalis, is dragging out a miserable existence at pi'esent. 

 The soil they were sown and potted out in was a poor ' kabar ' or wheat soil. - 

 The sowings in Garhakota were all in kabar soil, but the pottings out were, 

 in a few cases, in alluvial and in sandy soil. I observed no difierence in the 

 result. Of the different species the E. globulus, E. cornuta, and E. fissilis 

 germinated most freely, the second on this list being wonderfully fertile. They 

 no sooner were put out into baskets than they began to die, but this was 

 probably from their being too young. The way I got them out of their nursery 

 baskets was by putting the baskets into water, and thus washing the earth 

 out. By the beginning of May I had about 1,500, of which 1,132 died in a 

 fortnight. The weather during these days was terribly hot and unusually 

 oppressive. The deaths occurred principally among the kinds other than E. 

 globulus. This tree and E. cornuta and E. rostrata seemed most able to stand 

 the heat. All this time the trees were under a thatched cover, and were 



