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been dipped or not in liquid mud or manure, an ordinary man will 

 carry from 200 to 1200, a wheelbarrow will take at least twice a3 

 many, and a 2-bullock waggon from 3,000 to 20,000 on a kacha 

 road and very nearly double that number on a macadamised road. 

 Hand-barrows should be used chiefly for plants, the length of which, 

 inclusive of the roots, exceeds 3 feet» 



§ 2. Transport over long distances. 



Such transport includes journeys lasting over a day, and carriage 

 by rail or boat, for which we want a maximum of weight with a 

 minimum of bulk. 



For some time to come we shall never have occasion in India to 

 carry any large nuniber of transplants further than a 2 days' 

 journey on coolies or in bullock waggons. Indeed, with any other 

 mode of transport than by rail or boat, it will always pay to have 

 separate nurseries for distances exceeding that just mentioned. 

 Nor has Indian forestry or the country yet developed so far as to 

 enable us to employ railway or water-carriage for any thing more 

 than very small consignments of plants. Nevertheless this Manual 

 would be incomplete without some description of the modes of 

 packing and carriage suitable for long transport. 



Seedlings .with a ball op eakth. For journeys extending 

 over several weeks, during which the plants cin receive Httle or 

 no attention, Wardian cases (Fig. 104) should be used. It is 

 obvious that the use of Wardian cases should be limited to the 

 carriage of plants that are rare or quite new in the country into 

 which they are being imported. 



For ordinary journeys by road or rail or river, which journeys 

 seldom last more than a week, a less expensive mode of packing 

 is required, since the plants can either be attended to almost every 

 day, or need not be watered at all until they reach their destina- 

 tion. The packing should be effected in wooden cases after the 

 same manner as for a day's journey, except that the balls of earth 

 should, in view of the longer transport and the severer jolting they 

 will be subjected to, be packed closer together and with greater 

 care, and the further precaution may be taken of covering the soil 

 in the cases with moss or pounded charcoal. To prevent the 

 plants from being bent down or broken, bamboo laths should be 

 stuck in the soil by both ends so as to form an arch over the plants, 

 cross-pieces being tied to secure rigidity. 



Seedlings with naked boots. The plants may be (A) packed 

 Tip in baskets or (B) tied together in bundles. Packed in either 



