BULLET AND SHOT 



enough to recoup the expenses incurred in its 

 collection and carriage. 



Until some twenty-five years ago, the operations 

 of the Forest Department were confined to the 

 collection and sale of timber, sandalwood, and 

 other produce, and to the prevention of smuggling ; 

 but about that time planting operations were begun, 

 and are now prosecuted upon a large scale all over 

 the province. 



Teak, honne, and blackwood are easily raised 

 from seed sown in nurseries, and, if properly 

 transplanted, bear the operation well ; but sandal 

 is a very delicate plant, being impatient of trans- 

 plantation, and requiring shade while young. It is 

 therefore more advantageous to propagate sandal 

 by in situ sowings, in suitable localities, on properly 

 prepared ground. 



The propagation of gall-nuts requires special 

 treatment of the fruit, from which the hard fibrous 

 husk must be stripped, and the contained hard nut 

 well soaked in water, before the latter can be sown 

 with reasonable hopes of satisfactory and speedy 

 results. If the fruit be sown without such removal 

 of the outer husk, germination is extremely retarded, 

 and only an infinitesimally small proportion of the 

 contained seeds produce plants. 



The forests of the Mysore district are singularly 

 deficient in orchids of conspicuous beauty, though 

 there are many small, insignificant, epiphytal species, 

 and one or two larger and more showy terrestial 

 ones. In Northern Mysore, however, there are a 

 few showy epiphytal orchids. 



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