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fast-growing tree, have been “drawn” up quicker than they would 
have otherwise grown, and have done remarkably well. 
The most northerly station that I visited was Jendi, approximately 
on latitude 9:30, at an altitude of 640 feet above sea-level. The method 
of planting was slightly different at Jendi, agricultural crops being 
grown for three years between the rows of forest-tree seeds, only 
the oil palms and teaks being planted out as one-year seedlings from 
the nursery. 
Besides these two species, Khaya Senegalensis, Afzelia Africana, 
Date Palms, Ceara Rubber, and Ramboug Rubber have also been 
planted. Altogether 457,200 seedlings are growing. 
As firewood alone is worth 3d. a bundle, timber of all kinds is very 
valuable in this locality, the teak plantation alone being worth £200. 
Kete-Kratschi, the station adjoining Jendi and overlooking the 
Volto Valley, is a specially interesting one, because it was started by 
Graf Zech, the late Governor of Togo, who was so desirous of seeing 
plantations made everywhere. At this station the plantations were 
first made half a mile away, and these have done better than the 
later ones planted to the east of the station. 
Teak has been largely planted, and considering the poor soil and 
low rainfall, has done remarkably well. For the first time a parasite 
in the shape of a species of Loranthus was found growing on the upper 
branches of two large teak-trees, but no diminution in the growth 
of the teak was noticeable. Afzelia, Khaya Klainit and Khaya 
Senegalensis have been planted in large numbers, and experiments 
made with Albizzia lebbek, Poinciana regia, Acacia catechu and Ceiba 
pentandra. A few oil palms and Casuarinas have found a place in 
the plantations. Eight miles from the Volta Valley is the station 
of Pfandu, situated on an open, isolated hill with a sheer cliff to the 
east and sloping gradually away to the north-west and south. 
The only variation here in the planting system was that Cassada 
was largely used as an agricultural crop between the rows of tree 
seedlings, which were put in the year after the Cassada had been 
planted. Though the Cassada afforded a shade for the young seedlings, 
the latter did not seem to show sufficient growth to warrant a further 
trial of the system. The teak especially thrives here, the tree having 
reached a height of 36 feet and a girth of 14 inches, and these trees 
have already been felled for house-building purposes. The plantation 
is valued at £550. 
Ceara rubber is now being tapped on a large scale. Sasswood, 
Erythrophleum Guineense, Iroko, Oil Palms, and Funtumia elastica 
have been planted in large numbers, and a few Afzelias, Diospyros 
mespiliformis and Kapok trees. 
The hill station of Misahéhe overlooks the valley of the Chedscho 
and Agu, with the highest mountain in Togo opposite. The people 
