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(4) Nursery work and direct sowing. 



(5) Planting. 



(6) Tending. 



(1) Selection of suitable species. 



This point is obvious but bas only been too frequently neglected 

 in the past. Innumerable instances are known to almost every 

 forester of the planting of species unsuited to the locality. Large 

 sums of money have been wasted on planting deodar on bare 

 hillsides in the eye of the sun in positions where the work was 

 foredoomed to failure. The planting of larch in Britain under 

 entirely unnatural conditions has resulted in widespread epidemic 

 disease, and not even warned by past exparience the planting of 

 exotics to the neglect of indigenous species still continues. As a 

 general rule it is bast to employ species natural to the locality to 

 be planted, if these are of sufficient value, and to defer the whole- 

 sale introduction of other species until experiments have shown 

 that good results can be obtained. In any case attention must 

 invariably be paid to the soil and climatic requirements of these 

 exotics in their natural environment. 



Given suitable silvicultural conditions the most valuable species 

 should always be selected as the costs of formation usually are 

 constant for all species. If teak can be grown successfully it is 

 useless to plant other species unless these are required to form a 

 mixture with the teak. This tree is one of the easiest to manage, 

 it grows very rapidly in early youth and even outside its natural 

 habitat has been found to be a very valuable species for planting 

 work. In Gorakhpur, after exhaustive trials with many trees, teak 

 has been found by far the best for filling up blanks in the sal 

 coppice, and a plantation of indifferent quality 40 years old in this 

 division has been sold for over Rs. 1,000 per acre, giving better 

 financial results than the native sal. 



A species may show very fine results at the start but later 

 on may be a financial failure. Sissu is tha only species for the 



