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an pine " or "beef -wood tree." It is a pretty ever- 

 green tree of rapid growth, witti thin, feathery foliage 

 and conical habit. Diameter at base of trunk 12 — 24 

 inches ; height 50 — 70 feet. To those who fre- 

 quent the groves of the Tinian pine, the mournful 

 soughing of its fluted branchlets is a familiar sound. 

 The proper leaves are reduced to mere scales at the 

 tips of the branchlets. Flowers monoecious, incon- 

 spicuous and dull red. Fruit stalked, cone-like, 

 muricated, oval, and about an inch long. As a 

 fuel tree, this exotic species bids fair to surpass all 

 others, and is already extensively cultivated in 

 Southern India, where numerous plantations are 

 formed and millions of seedlings put down annually. 

 In the> vicinity of Bangalore, and especially along 

 the Madras sea-coast, these plantations have visibly 

 altered the landscape within the past decade. The 

 tree has the reputation of drying land exhaustively, 

 and this is in some measure confirmed by the fact 

 that it succeeds best in sandy or porous soils where 

 the subsoil is always moist. It is, on this account, ' 

 an excellent subject for planting on the sea-shore 

 and on lands that are being reclaimed from the sea. 

 Full directions as to planting, care-taking, and 

 departmental procedure in the treatment of Casuari- 

 na, will be found in the annexed memorandum, which 

 has recently been published by Mr. L. Eicketts, 

 Inspector General of Forests in Mysore. 



MEMOEANDUM ON CASUARIM PLANTING IN MYSORE. 



" Bistnhution and Use. — Casuarina equisetifoUa, Forst, is 

 Scattered thiroTigli Queensland, North Anstralia, the Malay- 

 Archipelago, Fiji, the sea-shores of phittagong, Burma, and 

 Siam ; but it is probably naturalized in many of these places, 

 as it soon will be in several parts of India. 



It is the beef wood of Australia, and, in this country, it 

 has already (within tte present century) inherited some 

 vernacular names. But the local or Kanarese name ' Kesarike' 

 it a mare corruptloa of the j^enerio name, Oaswi/rina. Tli» 



