and Magazine oj the Ceylon Agricultural Society.— December, 1918. 4S9 



experience for years past has been that the 

 prices have risen very considerably. Wattles 

 will grow and thrive on very poor country, and 

 the poorest soil can be utilised. A heavy rain- 

 fall is not required, as they will do well with 10 

 to 16 inches of rain per annum. In various parts 

 of this State there is poor land where the condi- 

 tions are favourable to wattle culture, and where 

 this tree could, be grown with profitable results. 

 It grows very rapidly from seed and the cheap- 

 est way of forming plantations is by broadcast 

 sowing, the trees being subsequently thinned 

 from time to time. When once a plantation 

 has been properly established there will be no 

 difficulty in obtaining a regular crop, for as 

 soon as the trees are stripped natural repro- 

 duction will do all that is required, and a new 

 crop will spring up again in a short time from 

 the seed shed by the parent tree. A successful 

 plantation will produce five tons of bark per 

 acre, when the trees are fit for stripping, which 

 at, say, £5 per ton means a return of £25 per acre. 

 — West Australian, Nov. 16. 



HOW TO BUD THE MANGO 

 SUCCESSFULLY. 



Directions fob Making the Right Kind of 

 Budding Tape. 

 In the Bulletin of the Department of Agricul- 

 tura, Jamaica, T J Harris describes a successful 

 method of budding mangoes. The essentials to 

 be observed are as follows : — 



" That both the stock and the tree yielding 

 the buds be growing rapidly. That the bud 

 wood be a little larger in diameter than the 

 stock to insure the area on the under side of the 

 actual bud being brought into close contact 

 with the wood when tied in ; if the bud wood be 

 less in diameter than the stock, a hollow space 

 will occur between these parts that should be 

 closely applied ; acting with this against success 

 is the thinness of the bark of the younger wood 

 and the consequent impossibility of tying in 

 closely. That the bud be tied in tightly, es- 

 pecially at the points just below and above the 

 bud proper, but yet not tight enough to crush 

 or bruise the bark. That the piece of bark con- 

 taining the bud be removed from the wood 

 without bruising, bearing in mind that the 

 bending will bruise or crush the cells of a 

 plant. That the moisture be retained in the 

 bud during the time required bo join up by 

 using tying material that will prevent evapora- 

 tion, i.e., waxed tape, This is made by dipping 



three-eighths in, tape into a melted mix- 

 ture of 1 lb. beeswax, a piece of resin the size 

 of a hen's egg, and half a wine-glass of raw lin- 

 seed oil ; scraping off the superfluous wax with 

 a dull knife after cooling. The bud wood should 

 be near the stock to insure no time being lost 

 between the taking off of the bud and its in- 

 sertion in the stock, 



The bud wood used should be 4 to 6 seasons 

 old and 1 to li in. in diameter, and in any case 

 larger than the stock on which it is grafted. The 

 piece of bark containing t the bud in the centre 

 is made about [3 in. long and three-fourths in. 

 wide. Large seedling trees may be cut off and 

 the sprouts arising from the stump budded. 

 No more than three sprouts should be allowed 

 to grow to each stump. In placing the bud on 

 the stock care should be taken to make a space 

 large enough so that the bud patch can be 

 moved slightly from side to side and up and 

 down. Union takes place under the bud and 

 not at the sides. If the bud is still green two, 

 weeks after budding the whole of the stock 

 above the bud may be cut off. — Cuban American, 

 July 27. - ; } 



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PAPER PULP FROM BAMBOOS* 



The Indian Forest Research Institute at 

 Dehra Dun has for some years been conducting 

 investigations into the value tor paper pulp- 

 making purposes of the many excellent grasses 

 to be found in India. The problem of manu- 

 facturing cheap bamboo pulp has now been 

 thoroughly investigated. In India the work has 

 been undertaken by Messrs Sindall and Raitt, 

 and in Manila by Mr Richmond, of the Ameri- 

 can Bureau of Science. Mr Sindall and his 

 predecessors in India did not arrive at very 

 convincing results, though, as we have before 

 pointed out, Mr Sindall's booK on the subject 

 was printed on paper made from bamboo pulp, 

 The position, we believe, has been largely modi- 

 fied by the later investigations of Mr W Raitt, 

 the Government Cellulose Expert attached to 

 the Forest Research Institute, whose report on 

 the subject has recently been issued as one of 

 the " Indian Forest Records," and which may 

 not improbably lead to a new era not only in the 

 Indian paper industry, but in the prospects of 

 the world's supply of paper. Mr Raitt, in 

 the opening paragraph of his report says :— 

 " The results of a considerable number of trials 

 and experiments by pulp and paper makers have 

 also been published, but the general impress 



