1 26 The youj'iial of Forestry. 



watered twice a day. From this time the deaths decreased wonderfully, but 

 still a certain number died up to the day I transplanted them. This was done 

 purposely in different soils and situations. Some were planted close along 

 the bank of a perennial nullah ; some in a marshy spot where the water 

 generally collects in the rains ; others were planted on a height, a well-drained 

 knoll. The results are difficult to appreciate. Death has been impartial, and 

 selected his victims from those on the knoll equally with those in the marsh, 

 and of the seedlings only 111 remained alive when counted a few days ago. 

 These are distributed in all soils and situations, and consist of an equal pro- 

 portion of all, save 'E. marginata, of which only six or seven germinated in 

 the first instance. 



"The wonderful development of growth is not discernible in these Eucalypti, 

 for my tallest tree is not five feet high. 



*' Some seeds received from the conservator in June were sown by me in the 

 rains (August). These were — 



E. globulus. I E. amygadalina. 



E. cornuta. E. viminalls. 



E. fissilis. I 



" In Saugor I selected two kinds of earth, one the afore-mentioned ' kabar,' 

 and the other decomposed sandstone taken from the lower slopes of the hills 

 round the station. The plants germinated fairly freely in the kabar, but very 

 poorly in the red earth. They were healthy when I last saw them last month. 

 Of the same seed I sent down a parcel to Garhakota to be sown. They were 

 sown in three kinds of earth, one ' kabar,' the second hill detritus with lime 

 mixed in it, and the third river alluvium. These have been an utter failure. 



" There was one E. globulus in the police gardens in Saugor, the only one 

 left of many trees. This grew to a height of twenty feet between December, 

 1874, and June, 1876, and then without rhyme or reason died. The Canton- 

 ment magistrate of Saugor has some still alive, and Major Loch, the Deputy 

 Commissioner, has been, I believe, successful up to the present. Various other 

 experiments were tried in the station. One gentleman, who had been in 

 Australia, tried to grow two kinds, glohulus and another, without water and on 

 hilly slopes, with very little soil. They thrived (six of them) till the rains, 

 when they died off at once. Colonel Kincaid, Political Agent, Sehore, was 

 successful, I believe. 



" With regard to the few young trees I have now in Saugor, I have quite 

 given up hopes of their ever growing to any height, and I think, with refer- 

 ence to Saugor at any rate, that the Eucalypti are a failure. Had even a 

 greater per-centage of the trees in Garhakota survived, I do not think Govern- 

 ment would be justified in carrying on the experiment, for the expenditure 

 would be by far too heavy, as the growth here is nothing like as rapid as it is 

 in the Nilgiris." 



The remainder of the magazine is full of interesting short " Notes ; " 

 but the limits of our space prevent us from giving further extracts, with 

 the exception of an interesting article entitled " Eats in Nurseries," which 

 we have reprinted in full on another page, and which we think will be read 

 with much interest by all who have the care of a nursery or young planta- 

 tion, and are plagued with vermin, destroying their seeds and stock. 

 Sixteen pages of "Extracts from Official Gazettes," &c., contain a long 

 list of appointments, exchanges, transfers, &c., in the Indian Forest De- 

 partment, which will be read with interest by officials and their friends. 



