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the pores. Pores marked 011 u longitudinal section, and medullary rays 

 visible as narrow bands on a radial section. 



Gregarious in Victoria and the south of Tasmania, Introduced on the Nilgiris, 

 and now completely naturalised. 



Of the Eucalyptus Globulus several successful plantations have been established 

 on the Nilgiri Hil'ls. There are 22 plantations in all, but some of theinare exclusively 

 of " Wattles" or Australian Acacia ; others eoni aiu only a small proportion of ^Eucalyp- 

 tus, while others have not been successful owing to bad locality or other reasons. 

 The chief good plantations are 



Near Ootacamund 



1. Aramby ....... 38 acres planted 1863-65 



2. Governor's Shola ..... 80 1870-72 



(part, however, is Acacia Melanoxylori). 



3. Norwood . . 26 1872-73 



4. Cally ........ 14 1870 



5. Arnikal ....... 11 1873 



6. Baikie ...... 33 1874 



Near Wellington 



7. Newman ....... 35 1870-71 



8. Old Forest . . . . . . . 200 1872-73 



or, including smaller ones, about 500 acres altogether. Colonel Beddome in his Report 

 of 12th June 1876, from which the above is taken, says that in Aramby the growth 

 is very unequal, some being 30 to 40 inches in circumference, others only 3 to 4 

 inches ; that about 504 were then found per acre. Measurements of 15 of the 

 largest trees, made by Mr. Gass, gave an average girth of 34 inches, height 85 feet, 

 and average contents 23 cubic feet, but these cannot be taken for an average. 



Mr. Gass found in the Newman plantation,' then 5 to 6 years old, an amount of 

 material of 152 tons per acre, and Colonel Beddome is of opinion (Report of 20th July 

 1878) that the best treatment of Eucalyptus plantations, so as to get the greatest 

 profit, will be to cut for coppice every 5 or 6 years, obtaining at the cuttings at 

 least 100 tons per acre. The growth of Eucalyptus is sometimes very fast. Captain 

 Campbell Walker in his paper on the " Plantations and Firewood Reserves in the 

 Madras Presidency," read at the Forest Conference of 1875, says that the growth is 

 often 1 foot per month during the first few years ; and Colonel Beddome in his Report 

 of July 1878 says that a Eucalyptus tree 12 years old, recently felled at Ootacamund, 

 gave 144 cubic feet, which amounts to 1 foot per month, which is the same as was stated 

 by Captain Campbell Walker. It would be extremely useful, however, before definitely 

 basing the working plans of the Nilgiri Eucalyptus plantations on simple coppice 

 with a 5 or 6 years' rotation to make further and careful measurements of the 

 amount of material per acre at different ages. 



The Eucalyptus Globulus has been tried at numerous places all over India, chiefly 

 on account of the reports that it would prevent malaria, and that it was valuable 

 in reclaiming marshy land. Whatever may be the truth about these questions, the 

 tree has almost universally failed in the plains, and in the Himalaya it has only 

 succeeded in a few localities. At Simla, whether from frost or for what reason, 

 it seems to die down yearly, sending up vigorous shoots to replace the dead stem ; 

 at Darjeeling its growth has been slow, and the trees formed merely thin poles, prob- 

 ably the effect of too much damp ; while its chief success has been at Ranikhet and 

 Abbottabad. At Shillong, in the Khasia Hills, it had been said to be a failure, but 

 in his review of the Assam Forest Report for 1876-77, Colonel Keatinge called atten- 

 tion to the fact that the IS. G-lobulus, though a failure at the Shillong plantation, had 

 yet grown well in other situations in that station, and that several self-sown seedlings 

 were thriving under the old trees. 



The seeds of Eucalyptus are usually very small, those of E. Globulus being 

 perhaps the largest of the species usually tried in India ; the seed, if good, germinates 

 well usually, and the plants at once begin to grow fast, but they are very tender of 

 transplanting, so that that operation has to be very carefully done. On the subject of 



