CHAPTER Y. 



PLANTING- 



Success in planting depends mainly on : — 



(1) A judicious selection of the species to be used ; 



(2) Choice of the most suitable kind of planting material ; 



(3) Putting out this material at the right- time of the year ; 



(4) Careful and skilful hfting up, pruning and transport ; 



(5) The right quantity to put out and its just distribution over 

 the area to be planted up ; 



(6) The most economical as well as effective mode of preparing 

 the soil and putting down the planting material ; and 



(7) Adequate care of the plantation until it is estabhshed. 



SECTION I. 



Choice of species. 



Besides being adapted to the soil and other local conditions and 

 to fulfil the end sought, as they should in any case be, the species 

 selected should be such as can be planted by some one or more of 

 the numerous methods of planting, and this too at a cost that is 

 not prohibitive. In hard stony soil only such species should be 

 used as concentrate their early vigour mainly on the development 

 of the roots, for it is a well known fact that all planting material, 

 immediately after being put into the ground, has a tendency to 

 exhibit a disproportionate amount of energy in bringing out leaves 

 and twigs at the expense of the reserve food stored therein, on the 

 exhaustion of which the sum total of the parts above ground have 

 acquired such an inordinate predominance over the root apparatus, 

 that this latter becomes quite unequal to meeting the demands 

 thenceforward made on it and the entire plant then succumbs. 



SECTION II. 

 The various kinds of planting material. 



Planting material may be very different according to its 

 origin, its outward form, its size and age, the mode in which it has 

 been raised, and the agency through which it has been obtained. 



