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•1 R. H. Ee Idome, Conserva'or of Forests, 
try to Government, Revenue Department, 
latal Ootncamuid, 6th June, 1831, No. 207. 
1 G.O., No. 781,. of the 17th ultimo, I 
or to inform you that I have just sent 
ng report on the Chinchona plantations 
inspection and study of them f >r about 
eceivo this Government order 
been despatched, nor had I 
!fore, but it uill be seen that 
! same conclusions as he had 
Is and various other matters, 
pp ort fully on the subjects of 
Galisaya and other species; 
lpt'ooting (as the case may he) 
is 1 videut ; t'10 d! effects of 
, and the a Ivisaoility now of 
as possible ; an I hybrids ; 
I have treated in my re 
the culiivation of Pitayo, 
necessity of coppicing or u 
trees the decay of which 
the original wide plan inu'. 
intenns iato planting as f 
so I need not add more here. 
2. Coppicing. — Mr. Cross objects to such a large 
area having been coppicol, and states that the trees 
have been coppiced too low down and that four to five 
inches of the trunk or collar dura) I have beon left. 
There has alwavs been a difference in opinion as to the 
height the collar should be. ami I find in my letters 
to Mr. Harlow, the Commissioner at the time (ride 
also QiO., l,161„of 27 li May 1879), that I was anxious 
to restrict the aiv:i to about 3 acres, and that I wished 
three systems tried as experiments for data : first, to 
ad/.e the collar Hush with the ground; second, to leave 
about six inches of collar; third, not to coppice with- 
out first es'ablishing a shoot. The Commissioner whs 
in charge of the plantations at the time, and I had only 
been ordered to select the area to be coppiced, and these 
suggestions of mine do not seem to havo carried weight, 
as they were not acted up to and all the stools were 
adud neatly flaah to the ground. I have no reason to 
llnd fault with the result a will be seen from my ro- 
nort, and I think if Cpupiclncj won u;aiu onleral and 
in the absence of actual dulu, which 1 wtu anxious to 
