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anything like expansion, and, in a word, completely stifled 

 their growth. 



In the case of the earlier plants, there was far too little at- 

 tention paid to the requisite amount of shade. The timber 

 had been entirely cleared away, and the young plants were 

 consequently exposed during the whole day to the fierce 

 heat of the tropics. Unless people were prepared to see the 

 whole plantation go to ruin it was necessary at once to take 

 protecting measures against it. Junghuhn was a man fit for 

 any emergency, as he had already shown on the banks of his 

 native Rhine, when the very cells of Ehrenbreitstein, with 

 which a chivalric adventure had made him acquainted in 

 his youth, had for once been found too narrow to hold him. 

 So in Tjipodas, the man of resources was able at once to 

 devise a remedy. With incredible toil, and the most foster- 

 ing care and attention, nearly all the trees were, without 

 detriment to one single twig, transplanted from a soil so 

 little congenial to them to the adjoining Rasamala-wood, in 

 which the proud, slight Liquid-amhar Altingiana imparts its 

 own peculiar cliaracter to the primeval forest, where they 

 were transferred to spots partly shaded, which had already 

 been prepared for their special reception, the sites having been 

 surrounded with trenches to carry off the superfluous water. 

 In October, 1857, some of the trees had already attained a 

 height of 141 feet ; by 31st March of the following year they 

 were already 15| feet, while their stems were 3.44 inches 

 thick. Many of the trees planted near the forest had within 



