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Again, in his report for 1878-79 he wrote 
“ The Anjan germinated very fairly, hut, like the teak, sneered 
from the effects of frost. This species, from the sapling 
stage upwards, is capable of resisting even severe frosts, 
hut, as teas to he expected, the loiv delicate seedlings harely 6 
months old easily succumhed.'" 
As stated above, we are quite of a contrary opinion, and feel sure that 
wnat Mr. Fernandez took to be the effect of frost was really the effect of 
drought. This is borne out, moreover, by what he himself wrote many 
years later, when he had had considerably more experience of the species. 
On pages 525 and 526, Volume XXIX of the Indian Forester, quoting 
from a letter to the Inspector-General of Forests, Mr. Fernandez says : — 
“ In .the Punasa forests in 1874, when I took over charge of them, 
I found the most perfect new reproduction wherever there 
had recently been field cultivation In 
October the seedlings began to wither, and by the middle 
of the hot weather there was scarcely a single one alive, 
the inability of the tap-roots to penetrate through the 
dense mass of grass roots was the cause of their death.” 
No mention at all is made of frost, besides which, the seedlings were 
noticed to be withering already in October, at least two months before 
the first frosts occur. 
Direct observation on our own part has satisfied us that frost is no 
enemy of the Anjan seedling. On the 16th January, 1906, we were 
camped at Kirgaon, w'here, at the time, the adjoining forest was full of 
Anjan seedlings in their first year, the result of a prolific seeding in 1905. 
That night a severe frost occurred, killing all the brinjal and tomato 
plants in the forest garden, and doing considerable damage to such 
species as Terminalia tomentosa, Buchanania latifolia, Tectona grandis, 
and others, as was evident by the blackened and withered branches to be 
seen when inspecting the forest the following morning. We particularly 
noted on that occasion the absolute immunity from all damage of the 
Anjan seedlings. Again on the 6th January, 1908, a similar frost oc- 
curred, and the same facts were again observed. It may be added that 
not only were seedling Anjan immune, but Anjan in every stage of growth. 
On the other hand seedling Anjan suffer terribly from excessive heat. 
Curiously enough it is only at this stage of its career that excessive heat 
