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to the individual, to the community and to the nation. Instead 

 of dreary wastes of sand and swamp 1,611,421 acres of Maritime 

 pine forests give a net annual revenue of 675,500 and provide a 

 livelihood for the local population.* 



The Eucalyptus plantations of the Nilgiris and the irrigated 

 sissu plantations of the Punjab show how the face of nature can 

 be transformed by the art of the forester and a barren country 

 turned into a productive garden. 



It is now necessary to consider the technique of artificial 

 regeneration in all its aspects, to discuss methods of sowing and 

 planting and the various factors which make for success in these 

 operations. 



If artificial reproduction is to be undertaken at all it is 

 absolutely necessary that every detail of the proper technique 

 should be given minute attention, that constant personal super- 

 vision should be exercised and that the work be organised on a 

 businesslike footing. Large sums have been wasted by inattention 

 to these matters. Success in this work is almost entirely a 

 personal matter. With exactly similar advantages one man will 

 succeed and another fail. The latter will plead drought, frost, 

 hail, excessive rain or some other vicissitude of nature entirely, 

 beyond his control, when as a matter of fact his failure is entirely 

 due to own incompetence. There is only one way of judging the 

 capacity of the forester and that is by the results he can command. 

 The successful man is one who can grow crops at a profit, no 

 scientific knowledge is of any value if it cannot be applied to this 

 end " Two centuries of forest culture in Europe have conclusively 

 demonstrated that successful artificial regeneration is chiefly a 

 matter of soil management." 



The following are the factors to be considered : 



(1) Selection of suitable species. 



(2) Soil preparation. 



(3) Seed supply. 



* StuJtei in French Foreitry, by T. S. Woolsey. 1920. 



