FUEL PLANTATIONS IN INDIA. 

 I append the following list of a few such : 



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Acacia Arabica ... 

 leucophlcea 

 Cassia floribunda.. 

 Albizzia lebbeck... 

 Acacia amara 



Inga dulcis 



And many others. 



Karu-Veylum 



Vel-Veylum 



Konnay 



Vaghay 



Woonjal 



Korkapilly ... 



Qsiressr&Gur. 



In addition to producing good fuel of high calorific power, 

 the Acacia Arabica and Albizzia lebbeck produce timber of 

 considerable value, the dense dark-red heart-wood being 

 used for a variety of economical purposes. 



The black heart- wood of Cassia floribunda is also a valu- 

 able wood. 



If, in obtaining a block of 100 acres of land, a portion is 

 found unfitted for Casuarina, it is advisable to plant any or 

 all of the above mentioned species of fuel-producing woods, 

 which in a stiff soil, like black cotton, are almost certain to 

 produce a heavier outturn per acre within the same period 

 of time. 



It is a mistake to thin out a portion or the whole of a fuel 

 or timber plantation and replant the places occupied by the 

 trees so taken out. Not only will the trees left standing 

 be detrimental to the young plants from the shade cast by 

 their branches, but their roots will deprive the little ones 

 of all nourishment and kill them. 



It is far better to fell over completely a portion or the 

 whole of the block and allow the stools to shoot up into 

 coppice, when the coppice may again be felled when it has 

 reached a sufficient size; but the outturn will be a little 

 less than the original crop taken off the land, within the 

 same period of time previously. 



With Casuarina not more than three or four coppicings 

 can with advantage be effected on the same land, it being 

 preferable to replant for the fourth crop with another 



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