14 PLANTING IN UGANDA 



Malaya have since been made by individual 

 planters. 



Cocoa. The first plantings of Cocoa were made 

 in 1901 in Entebbe Botanic Gardens, the young 

 plants in this instance also having been brought 

 from Kew. We read* that they were planted, 

 half of them in heavily shaded forest, and half in 

 a more open situation. The latter were found to 

 thrive much better than the former. The general 

 result is said to have been very satisfactory. 



In the report of the Scientific Department for 

 1905 we learn that during the previous year the 

 Cocoa crop made very little progress ; but a year 

 later the report of the same Department told of 

 immense improvement in the condition of the 

 trees, which improvement it attributed to 

 systematic pruning. From that time onwards 

 the crop improved yearly, until now its success 

 in Uganda is assured. Experience has shown that 

 great care is required in the early years of the tree, 

 but given such care, especially a proper amount of 

 attention to the matter of pruning, Cocoa may be 

 planted with a reasonable certainty of proving 

 remunerative. 



Dawe'a Report, Scientific and Forestry, Uganda, 19^4. 



