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tion regarding the results of planting eucalypts in the Indian Peninsula. 

 Probably the most successful species so far tried at low elevations is E. tereii- 

 cornis, which grows well even at Bombay ; E. rostrata also does well at low 

 elevations, and is grown at Poona and elsewhere. Attempts made about 

 18746 at Saugor in the Central Provinces, to grow certain species, including 

 E. cornuta; E. Globulus, E. marginata, E. obliqua, E. rostrata, E. Sideroxylon, 

 and E. viminalis, resulted in failure. E. Globulus was tried in 1909 in coast 

 sand in the Madras Presidency, but needless to say the result was a failiu-e. 

 In the same year E. marginata, E. resinifera, and E. rostrata were sown in the 

 Sanyasimalai plantation in North Salem at an elevation of 4,000 ft. ; the 

 seedlings throve the first year, but no subsequent information is available. 

 Eleven different species were tried at Mercara in Coorg in 1913 ; those which 

 proved the most successful during the first few years were E. maculata, E. 

 pilularis, E. punctata, E. goniocalyx, E. saligna, and E. resinifera. Plants of 

 E. maculata three years old had a maximum height of 21 ft. and a maximum 

 girth of 7 in. 



. 3. Himalaya. Eucalypts have been grown in various parts of the Himalaya 

 for many years, but at elevations where there is any appreciable snowfall in 

 winter they have suffered so severely from snow-break that they are now 

 recognized to be unsuitable for planting except at the lower elevations. 

 E. Globulus is probably the species which has been planted most extensively, 

 and it has grown well except for liability to snow-break ; E. Sideroxylon is 

 reported to have done well in the Kumaun hills. Mr. R. N. Parker notes 

 that at Abbottabad (elevation 4,000 ft.), where eucalypts are extensively 

 grown, the species seen are E. tereticornis, E. rostrata, E. Sideroxylon, E. macu- 

 lata var. citriodora, and E. Globulus.^ Prior to the abnormal frost of 1905 



E. Globulus was far commoner than it is now, but all the trees were badly 

 injured and many were killed outright in that year. At present E. tereticornis 

 is by far the commonest species in that station : there are also several 

 specimens of E. Sideroxylon, and one each of E. rostrata and E. maculata var. 

 citriodora, dating from before 1905. 



Experiments in the cultivation of eucalyptus in the Simla liills have been 

 in progress for some years past, the most complete of these dating from 1909, 

 when small experimental plots were established at various elevations along the 

 Kalka-Simla railway and in the neighbourhood of Simla itself. The cultiva- 

 tion was carried out by means of direct sowings on roughly prepared ground, 

 no watering being done. So far the following have been found to succeed, 

 to some extent at least, at different elevations : 



[a) Under 4,000 ft. : E. calophylla, R. Br.*, E. cornuta, Labill., E. cory- 

 nocalyx, F. v. M., E. eximia, Schauer*, E. gomphocepMla, DC, E. goniocalyx, 



F. V. M., E. Gunnii, Hook., E. hemiphloia, F. v. M., E. Leu/^oxylon, F. v. M.*, 

 E. longifolia. Link and Otto*, E. Maideni, F. v. M., E. melliodora, A. Cunn., 

 E. microcorys, F. v. M., E. paniculata, Sm.*, E. punctata, DC, E. resinifera, 

 Sm., E. rosttata, Schlecht*, E. rudis, Endl., E. Stuartiana, F. v. M., E. tereti- 

 cornis, Sm.* 



(6) 4,000-6,000 ft. : E. amygdalina, Labill., E. Ca^nbagei, Deane and 

 Maiden*, E. coriacea, A. Cunn., E. corynocalyx, F. v. M., E. crebra, F. v. M., 



^ Ind. Forester, xxxix (1913), p. 81. 



