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E. alba Reinw. Plants grown from Javan seed lived for three years, and then died. Plants from 

 Australian seed (E. platyphyllu F.v.M.) have in some eases done very well. 



E. punctata DC. A single tree of this species is doing very well in Dehra Dun. 



E. drepanopltylla F.v.M. This species' is growing well in several places, but the growth is slow- 

 It stands a heavy rainfall better than any species tried so far. 



E. terminalis F.v.M. Grows well in Dehra Dun, but is very difficult to get through the first monsoon. 



One or two others can perhaps be added to the above list, as there are some specimens scattered 

 about in North India which cannot be identified for want of complete material. Moreover, several other 

 species have been grown and have flowered and fruited, but the growth in some cases is so poor that they 

 do little more than exist. In the ease of E. bicolor A. Cunn., there are some very ornamental specimens 

 in Delhi, whereas in Lahore. Saharanpur, and Dehra Dun the growth of this species has been very poor. 

 It seems possible that some species cannot stand even temporary water-logging of the soil, either by 

 irrigation or heavy rain, and if this is the case it would account for the growth of E. bicolor being unsatis- 

 factory in Delhi and bad in Saharanpur and Lahore. I suspect that under somewhat different soil con- 

 ditions to those normally prevailing in North India the growth of the following species would be better 

 or in the ease of the first-named, more uniformly satisfactory than it has been hitherto : — E. hemiphloia 

 F.v.M., E. ochrophloia F.v.M.. E. polyanthema Schau., E. populifolia Hook. 



Of the remaining species tried hitherto only the following seem worth any further trial : — E. affinis 

 Deane and Maiden, E. Baueriana Schau., E. Bosistoana F.v.M., E. exserta F.v.M., E. loxophleba Benth., 

 E. oleosa F.v.M. and E. propinqua Deane and Maiden. 



In the hills the result of trials up to date has been very much the same as in the plains. Isolated 

 trees have sometimes been got to grow well, but all attempts to introduce Eucalypts on a large scale have 

 failed. The Jagdeo plantation, at about 5,600 feet in the Kumaon Hills, may be mentioned as an example 

 of the results obtained. Between 1875 and 1883 over 50,000 Eucalypts were planted. Now several trees 

 are still remaining, but nothing that can be called a plantation. For some ten years commencing with the 

 year 1906 Eucalypts have been tried in the Simla Hills at elevations varying from 2,000 to 7,000 feet. 

 In these experiments over 60 species have been tried, and some species have been got to grow at each place. 

 but hitherto no method of introducing them on a large scale has been devised. 



The object of trying to introduce Eucalypts in the Himalaya has always been to obtain cheap fire- 

 wood for the various i: hill stations.' 7 The only solution of the firewood difficulties in the hills seems to 

 be to obtain a large yield from a small area, so as to reduce transport charges to a minimum. At present 

 there seems to be no prospect of Eucalypts being of assistance. Apart from all other difficulties, the land 

 available for forest plantations is always more or less steep and rocky, all the gentle slopes with deeper 

 soil being cultivated. The centres of fire-wood consumption are mainly at 6,000 and 7,000 or even 8,000 

 feet, whereas over 5,000 feet the rate of growth of the Eucalypts hitherto tried even on fairly good soil 

 is no longer abnormally rapid, and on shallow, rocky soil it is rather slow. 



At present Eucalypts are occasionally seen in the Himalaya as isolated specimens, usually in gardens. 

 The species most often seen is E. globulus Labill. E. teteticornis Sm. and E. rostrata Schl. are occasionally 

 seen, and in the Kumaon hills E. dealbata A. Curm. Above 5,000 feet they are very apt to be badly broken 

 by snow, and the only good specimens I have seen above this elevation have been a few trees of E. globulus 

 Labill., planted on rather exposed ridges where the soil happens to be deep. 



Eucalypts in North India show no tendency to reproduce themselves naturally in the plains. Even 

 in gardens self-sown seedlings are never observed. On the other hand in the Kumaon hills at 5,000 feet. 

 I have seen a few self-sown seedlings of E. dealbala A. Cunn. in the neighbourhood of planted trees. Both 

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