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" Andy Plantation, 4: miles from Ootacamund. — Sixty acres planted in CH. XXVI. 

 1873 with Eucali/ptiis globulus ; this plantation is in great part grass- _, ~"" 



land, and is too exposed to the monsoon for eucahiptus and has 



proved a failure. There are now only 5,000 Encalijptus globulus 

 established, and these are growing very poorly. 



" Baikie Plantation, 3 miles from Ootacamund. —Thirty-three acres 

 planted in 1874 with 39,000 Eucalyptus globulus at 6' by 6'; growing 

 well. 



" Chowgliat Gaily, 3| miles from Ootacamund. — Thirty acres planted 

 in 1871 with 32,000 Eucalyptus globulus 6' by 6' ; the upper part of 

 the plantation is much exposed to the monsoon, and there are many 

 failures ; the lower part has grown very well. 



" The Koolie Plantation, 1| miles from Ootacamund. — About 58 acres. 



'^ Bleakhouse Plantation, about 2 miles from Wellington. — About 235 — Wellington 

 acres. One hundred and fifty acres of this was planted nearly twenty pl^'^t^tio'^s- 

 years ago chiefly with Acacia melanoxylon ; seventy-five acres are 

 young, having been planted during the last few years, and are com- 

 posed almost entirely of Acacia dealbata (the Wattle). 



" The Newman Plantation, about 5 miles from Wellington. — Thirty-five 

 acres, of which 25 were shola and 10 grass-land; it was planted in 

 1870 and 1871 entirely with Eucalyptus globulus 6' by 6', and there 

 are about 40,000 trees, and the growth is certainly splendid and 

 beyond anything I have ever seen in any country, 



" Ballea Plantation, 4 or 5 miles from Wellington. — Sixty acres 

 planted in 1872, 9' by 6', with Eucalyptus globulus and Acacia melan- 

 oxylon alternately in broad strips. 



" The growth of the eucalyptus is not straight. 



" The Old, Forest Plantation, about 3 miles from Welliiigton. — Two 

 hundred acres planted in 1872-73, 9' by 9', with Eucalyptus globulus ; 

 this is the best soil and aspect of any of the plantations, and would 

 have been a magnificent plantation if it had been planted 6' by 6' ; it 

 was however planted 9' by 9', and the trees have consequently grown 

 very crooked ; the growth has been exceedingly rapid, the average 

 height being 59j feet and the average girth 17^ inches, and, although 

 there are only 537 trees to the acre, the weight per acre (exclusive of 

 tops and branches, which average 70 lb. per tree) was computed at 

 39 tons per acre. 



" Blackbridge Plantation. — Forty-eight acres in the immediate vicinity 

 of Wellington, planted with Eucalyptus globulus two years ago ; there 

 have been many failures. 



'^ The Rock Plantation, 2 miles from Wellington. — Eight acres planted 

 in 1875 with Eucalyptus globulus 6' by 6'. 



^^ Tippucachy, 2\ or 3 miles from Wellington. — Thirty-five acres 

 planted with Eucalyptus globulus 6' by 6'. 



" The firewood supply of the station of Ootacamund from Government 

 sources for the year 1875-76 was 1,832 tons, and to be on the safe 



