October i, 1881.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
38i 
Thesi 
uursi'i'i 
season. 
mc.rvci.il 
for the 
ners, a 
looked 
phS 
of itood 
planting 
, observed in the early 
wrong during the dry 
IS a plant growing a 
Elsowhorc, in odd cor- 
ateaclily : the generality 
.le, in different soils, 
•ly watered. When the 
was a small proportion 
pooi- 
able 
is sc 
mixt 
the ] 
beds 
dead 
litter 
to b 
year 
good 
misci 
the 
the ; 
ries, 
the c 
effeol 
to bi 
The 
with 
to th 
and 1 
line 1 
Then 
pots 
9 where persistently carried out. But it 
isition j to the careless it gave (rouble, to 
; looked very like a messy craze. During 
b season it has been followed in 17 nursc- 
it'l'erent hands and in different parts of 
/. It is easy to account for its beneficial 
red in the appearance of the nurseries. 
1 of each nursery under sandal is shaded 
3 so as to afford a broken half-shade similar 
vhich sandal comes up naturally in thickets 
Eiich tile-pot now contains a bunch of 
with the rich dark foliage of healthy sandal, 
ibis hot wathor (1881) above alacoftile- 
il with sandal, and in many nurseries it 
Lot us pass now to the planting out and manage- 
ment of the tap-root. In young plants the tap-root 
ground. It is very sensitive to injury, and this was 
the cause of the failure of the early attempts to plant 
sandal. If cut so as to only remove two or three 
inches, leaving ten inches above perfectly undisturbed 
in it-i pot, the plant will usually die. The plan now 
adopted 10 keep the tap-root of manageable size is to 
have a layer of bits of broken tile strewn so as to lie 
flat at the bottom of the tile-pots, much as one pots 
Hants in a llower-pot, and doing so may be presumed 
to afford the same advantages in the way of drain- 
He. By this means the tap-root is stopped growing 
down moro than ten inches, the depth of the tile- 
pots ; it divides and accommodates itself within the 
Bid-pot; lateral roots develop, and wo obtain a form 
oi root suitable) for planting. 
Tranaplinting begins as soon as the ground is 
thoroughly moistened by the first rains ; it takes 
usually about tun inches of rainfall to do this. The 
We-pota are lifted, walked away to tho newly-tilled 
pit*. Doe tile is gently removed and the cylinder of 
Mrtfa and roo» resting on the other tile Blippcd into 
the ground. The oartli is Idled in, and the remain, 
ing tile, gently pushed back from the roots it has 
proti . ted and confined during the lust yea'-, is pulled 
out, and goes back with tho return coolies to tho 
nursery to be ro-sot, and begin its work again. 
Watering should be Btoppod in the nursery a day or 
two b i ne tho tile-pots are taken out, so that tho 
earth cylinders may be as hard as po sible, and the 
ggjOMplanting rules provide tor a littlo watering, for 
a day or 1 wo nftor tho plants aro put out. It is worth ! 
notion ; lint the b".st | lauting the 111 i 11 i 111 11 111 of rout . [ i - - 
turbancc — is during tho driest weather (for tho season) 
—a curious adaptation t.. tho weak point of the climate. 
IKi 
hy not use flower-pots instead 
st place flower- pots are more 
nnot make ihem; and, secondly, 
38 of tile-pot nurseries would 
of the tile-not cylinders f/ivino- 
the ease w 
the cylinde 
next year. 
lich t 
earth 
syi ' 
rual. 
half 
has been already deser 
In Mysore, during th 
lacs of plants were p 
of fifteen rupees per 1,UUU pi 
was sandal, and the percentag 
among the sandal was 35 pe 
membered that this was th< 
planting on a large scale, and this figure will probably 
be much reduced in the future As usual, nothing 
was spent on watering or weeding alter toe plants 
were put out. Repeated failure is not a very serious 
matter on these terms ; E5-8 per 1,000 plants rep resents 
season, two 
from tile-pots av ;i saving 
.lants. Of this, 5,000 odd 
ge of hot weather failures 
er cent. It must be re- 
10 first year of sandal- 
the cost. 
Each tile-pot contaius usually more 
plant, sometimes as many as half a d 
on how the seed comes up. 
There is thus a survival of the f 
grubs, and the first hot weather to 
then, 
first 
when space 
nonsoon aftei 
in each pit 
required for 
ndal 
:>n ; and 
rath the 
;he best 
A word in conclusion about sandal plantations else- 
where. We have heard about those of .Madras, and 
would be glad to learn more : their forest reports 
always late, have latterly not been sent to Mysore. 
It is believed that the plantation on the Neilgherries 
cost considerably more than R30 per acre of 50l) plants, 
and that that near the Cauvery falls is really in situ 
sowing with a suggestion of English ploughs and 
elephants— costly enough, and impossible tor wo: k 
among hills or in existing forests. E30 per acre of 
50Q plants is now the maximum cost of planting in 
Mysore, but it is hoped that sandal may do wi h pits 
2 feet instead of 3 feet cube, and then ihe cost of 
planting will fall to R16 per acre of 500 plants. 
Sandal-planting has been begun, I belie ve, in the 
Nizam's Dominious and in the Central Provii ces, o 
both of which places seed has been sent from Mysore. 
There are some sandal plants now growing in the 
Botanical Gardens, Brisbane, from Mysore s-ed. Pos- 
sibly the existence of frost may mark tho northern 
limit at which sandal can be profitably growu in 
India. A specimen of sandal from the Nizam's 
ipared with Mysore wood, showed a 
>, and was nearly scentless, but no 
;he elevation at which it was grown 
Probably good sandal could be grown 
Uthom India between 1,500 feel and 
alion, and a moderate rain': 'I. Tho 
Domi 
dense 
partic 
were 
anyw 
5,000 
higl 
feet ele' 
limit would be approximately the climate of 
Br'sbnnc : below the lower in Mysore, ihe tree looks 
straggling and forced, but it. does not lose its scent. 
There is uow in the Bangalore Museum a upo imen 
fully scented, which was found growing on t • 1 mks 
of the Cauvery at only 1,200 toot elevation. There 
is a largo trado in sandal botweeu Polynesia and 
China, which began about 44* yonis ago. J'he people 
• Forty years ago the sandal wood trade reached 
a development which is accounted for bj tho high 
Value attached t-j this wood by the Chincro. Specu- 
lators fitted out ships nud cut down tho f re-:* of tho 
Melaneainn Islands. Tho natives naturally losiated 
this devastation. They wore answered hy tho rifle. 
