144 SYLVICULTURE IN THE TROPICS , T .n 



Fig. 44. 



putting in the earth. After the earth is put in it 

 should be firmly pressed down. When there is any 



danger of the roots, under 

 new conditions, being in- 

 capable of supplying the ne- 

 cessary amount of moisture 

 to the leaves and tender 

 parts, it is advisable to do 

 a certain amount of pruning 

 or even of cutting back or 

 "stumping " the plant above 

 the root-collum. This prun- 

 ing or stumping is generally 

 done at the time of trans- 

 planting, but it would prol >- 

 ably be preferable to do 

 it a day or two before. If the transplanting is done 

 at a time when the seedling is leafless and whenever 

 possible this is the best time to do it the pruning 

 may be slight or altogether dispensed with. Water 

 should be given to the transplants after they have been 

 put in, but it should not be given too abundantly at 

 first, so as not to produce excess transpiration. It 

 should be just sufficient to make the particles of earth 

 close in round the rootlets and form proper contact. 

 Another watering may be given towards evening, except 

 at times or places where a frost may be expected during 

 the night. Subsequently, the nursery -lines may be 

 watered in the same way as the seed-beds, and the 

 shading and weeding should also be carried on in the 

 same manner. 



The raising of plants from cuttings is not usually 

 done on a large scale for forest operations, and, when 

 done, it is more often in the field than in the nursery. 

 Not all trees can be successfully raised from cuttings, 

 and those which can be raised in this manner are 

 usually neither so well rooted nor so long lived as those 

 obtained from seed. However, a laru;e number of trees 

 for avenues, e.g. Albizzia Lebbeh and Pithecolobium 



