February r, 1882.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
CINCHONA CULTIVATION. 
COLONEL BEDDOME and Mb. R. CROSS on the 
NILGIRI PLANTATIONS of the Madras Government. 
(Continued from page 635.) 
Pykara. 
The Hooker Cinchona Plantation, Acreage 131-19. 
62. No. I Plot, 1866, A. — Acreage 10-91, about half 
erase land and half shola laud. The grass land chiefly 
iffieinalis, only a few Sucoirubra ; tho crown barks have 
been planted too far apart, but the gaps are to be lillctl 
in this season. The shola land all Sucoirubra, growth 
good (about 20 feet high) except a small bit on the 
upper portion, which is much wind blown and thin from 
failures, and in which supplies are to be put down litis 
season. AH the plantation has been barked five tunes. 
63. No. II Plot, 1866, B. — 15-09 acres; about one- 
third grass land planted with Officinalis ; about two-thirds 
shola land planted with Suceirubra; growth good or fairly 
good ; in portions there is a yellowish appearance in the 
foliage which is not noticeable at Neddivattam ; it is 
probably due to the long drought and east wind, and 
will disappear with tho monsoon. All the plantation 
lias bei ii barked five times. 
01. No. XIII Plot, 1873.— 10-59 acres, all shola land, 
planted with Officinalis; a few Suceirubra put in as 
supplies ; there are about 20 Pitayonsis ; but 726 plants 
sent out from Ootacamund as August ifolia have turned 
out ordinary Officinalis; growth of treos good, but the 
plantation is very patohy and the trees far apart caused 
by tho inr >ads of sambur. In addition to the 10.4 planted 
toes, there are some 15 or 20 more of abandoned shola 
cleared in 1873, but now over-grown ; it. would be a 
good plan to fence in the plantation and to re-clear 
and re-plant this portion, and to plant up the vacancies 
in tho HM-aere plot, but it would be useless without 
fencing on account of wild animals. This plantation 
has not been barked. 
65. No. X Plot, 1869, A. — 3-58 acres, grass laud, 
iicoirubra and Officinalis in nearly equal proportion; 
growth not good; soil poor, rocky, and gravelly. Has 
been harked four times. 
66. No. VII Plot, 1868, A.— 18-36 acres, chiefly shola 
land, good soil, planted with Suceirubra ; the growth of 
the trees is good, but the plantation is very patchy 
from many trees having died out ; cause not known ; 
,'fhe gaps aro to bo lilled in with Officinalis, but I fear 
this will not answer unless the plantation is fenced in, 
as Bambw are exceedingly troublesome in this plot, and 
Ijvtroy most of tho young plants put out. The above 
Hps have all been barked four times. Some grass land 
planted with Officinalis very far apart ; growth short ; 
pi's have been dug for tilling in more trees; the soil 
IB good, ami it would have shown fur belter result- if 
it had been planted 4' x 4' instead of 8' x 8'. All tho 
trees have been barked four time-. 
67. No. Ill Pint, 1867, A.— 14-21 acres. Two-thirds 
BttS laud formerly very stunted Suceirubra, only a few 
feet high, which has last season all been up-rooted, 
and the ground is now pitted for Ollicinalis, which is 
to be planted out this season. One-third shola land 
Suceirubra . line growth and barked three timos. 
68. No. XI Plot, 186'.), /{.— 9-35 acres, all shola laud, 
planted originally with Suceirubra, growth g I, has all 
neon barked four timos; there are Buppltes of Officinalis ; 
BOine grey barks were dying out, and have been all up- 
rooted. I'ive acres eoppi e l in June 1*79, the stools bio I 
Mce-sivelv ; there u'e 1.379 failures out of '2,220 stools, 
but the sl7 which succeeded have grown well, and ON three 
to si\ feet high with one to three sti lus to each stool. 
6U. No. ill I Plot. 186S, /;. 23-7 1 acres, chictly 
npla bind, planted with Suceirubra ; the plol i- vorj 
patchy us very many trees were injured by the bail ui 
1879 and died out subsequently ; growth of in remainder 
good, now pitied for supplies of Officinalis. All barked 
four times. About two acres of gi-ass land covered with 
very fair Ollicinalis ; all harked four times. 
70. No. XII Plot, 1869, C— 6-52 acres, about three- 
fourths shola laud and one-fourth glass land, planted 
almost entirely with Suceirubra which nearly all died 
out after the hailstorm in 1879, and has been up-rooted 
and the plot re-planted in 1880 with Officinalis, doing 
well; there is a sprinkling of good old Ollicinalis (scat- 
tered about the plot) w hich were put down at the same 
time with the red harks. 
71. No. V Plot, 1867, C— 2-71 acres, chiefly shola 
upland, originally planted with Suceirubra which all died 
out after the hail-storm in 1879 ; it was afterwards rooted 
and re-planted with Officinalis in 1880 which is doing well. 
72. No. VI Plot, 1867, D. — 16 07 acres, all grass 
laud, about two-thirds, formerly very stunted Suceirubra 
which died out after the hailstorm in 1879, was up- 
rooted and the plot re-planted with Ollicinalis in 1880 
which is doing well ; about one-third covered with very 
good Officinalis which has been barked four times. 
73. No. IX Plot, 1868, C— 16-04 acres, all grass 
land, about two-thirds covered with fine Officinalis ; all 
barked four times ; about one-third, originally covered 
with stunted Suceirubra which mostly died out after 
the hailstorm in 1879, re-planted in 1880 with Officin- 
alis, doing well ; 1,020 old Suceirubra still survive, and 
there are 1,100 old Officinalis. 
74. No. IV Plot, 1867, £.—7-02 acres, about three- 
fourths grass land, planted with Officinalis, fair growth 
(12 feet high), but very patohy from wide planting, has 
been pitted for supplies which are to be put down this 
year ; all barked four times. About one quarter shola 
land planted with Suceirubra and Officinalis, growth good 
but patchy, the plot being much wind blown, pitted for 
supplies to he put down this year. All barked four times. 
75. State of the Hooker Plantation. — The growth here 
is far inferior to that at Naduvatam, considerable tracts 
of grass land being planted originally with " Suceirubra," 
which was a perfect failiu-o, only attaining a stunted 
growth of a few foot ; this has lately been nearly all 
up-rooted, and has been, or is being, replaced with 
" Officinalis " which grows very fairly on the grass laud 
soil ; there are still some tracts where the Suceirubra 
must give place to Officinalis or to Pubescens. 
76. Fencing.— Plot No. XIII, 1873, must be fenced, 
and a portion of the shola, which has been abandoned 
and allowed to revert to rank coarse growth, should bo 
re-cleared and planted. Fencing is also required in Plot 
VII, 1868, A. 
77. Coppicing.— 2,226 Suceirubra treos in Xo. XI 
Plot of 1869, four times previously barked and of good 
growth, were coppiced in Juno 1879; 1,379 stools have 
died, 847 aro growing fairly, height three to six feet. 
78. Number of Trees in Hooker Plantation. — Appendix 
B is a statement of the number of casualties amongst 
tho trees in the Hooker Plantation during the last tlu-ee 
years, and tho number of trees now exisiiuj based on 
Major Walker's enumeration. 
Pykaua. 
The Wood Cinchona Plantation, 72-18 acre), 
79. No. V Plot, 1865, C— 8-80 acres, all shola land, 
planted with "Buccirnbrft" and a very few - Officinalis;" 
trees a good height, often over 20 feet, but not healil y 
in appearance, and numbers of failure.-; sub-soil vi-ry 
inferior; sized tree- barked six times. 
ho. No. U Plot, 1864.— 1087 acres, all shola land, 
Sm-cii ubia " and ••Officinalis;" growth all i r and 
spindly; mans failures and many blank spaces, ai I tract 
still dying out; sutler- much from the northeast wind J 
and the sab- BOll bad. Ail barked live tune--. 
