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continue to grow up in a bush till one takes the supremacv 
and the others then die down.” 
Mr. H. F. Arbuthnot, Deputy Conservator of Forests, writing of 
Anjan in th^' Bellary Division, Madras, says :■ — 
“ in inspecting a coupe in the Sandur leased forests, which 
had been felled about two years ago, I found a stumji which 
had been coppiced about 3 inches above the ground, but 
had not been very well trimmed. It had sent out two cop- 
pice shoots from well below the ground, both strong and 
straight, one a little more than an inch in diameter and 
about 5 feet high, and the other rather smaller. This will 
probably be considered very slow growth for coppice, but 
it should be remembered that the growth of all species is 
very slow in this dry district.” 
On the other hand “ Old Ranger ” writes :■ — 
” In Berar Anjan does not coppice successfully; the stools fre- 
quently produce numerous coppice shoots, but these never 
advance beyond a slender drooping stage and gradually all 
die back.” 
Mr. E. E. Fernandez, retired Conservator of Forests, who had much 
experience of Anjan in Nimar as Divisional Officer, and later as Conser- 
vator in Berar, makes the statement — “ The tree will moreover not 
coppice.” {Vide the Indian Forester, Volume XXIX, page 524.) 
We ourselves are not of this latter opinion. We have seen coppice 
shoots 9 years old with a height of 14 feet, from an Anjan stool 2| feet in 
girth. The growth was on trap rock with not much depth of soil. The 
differences, in cur opinion, can be explained. In Berar the majority of 
trees felled are old lopped and pollarded trees, mostly unsound, and all of 
great age. According to our own observations the stools of such trees d o 
not produce coppice shoots, and very naturally, in our opinion. This 
has led to the rather sweeping statement that ‘ ‘ the tree will more- 
over not coppice.” We hold, however, that this statement is only ap- 
plicable to the old lopped, and. pollarded, trees referred to above, and that 
further experience will show that a good healthy seedling Anjan tree up 
to a girth of about 3 feet will not only coppice, but will coppice very 
well whether on trap or sandstone. 
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