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(3) There is less interruption in growth due to the lifting, 



transport and planting of the stock. 



(4) The root system is less liable to injury. 



On the other hand, where the planting site is exposed, subject 

 to drought or rank growth, larger plants should be used than on 

 the best sites. The age of the planting material will therefore 

 vary with the site and the species and in most cases cost limits 

 the size of the stock that can be advantageously used in forest 

 planting.* Transplants have a better developed root system but 

 it is doubtful whether this advantage compensates for the enhanced 

 oost of the plantation wherever it is possible to use seedlings. In 

 Bengal where planting is preferred to direct sowing the management 

 aims at producing nursery plants ready to plant out at the 

 beginning of the rains when 4 to 6 months old. In Kulu, as 

 already mentioned, deodar are always planted out when 1J years 

 old and transplanting in the nursery is not done. 



(2) Methods of planting. 



As a general rule the quicker the plantation can be established 

 .the cheaper and more satisfactory will the work be, and labour is 

 more economically employed in forcing the plants in their early 

 stages than in keeping them alive once they have had a setback 

 or in replacing a number of casualties. It is often more economical 

 to employ a more expensive method of planting if thereby 

 casualties can be avoided and more vigorous growth obtained.f 

 It is not proposed to discuss the various standard methods of 

 planting as these are well known to all foresters. It is necessary, 

 however, to emphasise the bad effects of doubling up the roots in 

 planting and the disastrous consequences of setting the plant with 

 the collar too deep in the soil. We are only too familiar with 

 both the above faults. When planted the young trees should stand 

 .a little above the level of the ordinary soil so that they sink 



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