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(b) Mixed Forest. 
This type is exemplified in the forests of the Punasa and Chandgarh 
Ranges of the Nimar Division, already described. 
We need not here add to the description given, except to note that 
this type is, as a rule, denser than the pure forest, that the middle age 
classes are very poorly represented, the majority of the Anjan stock 
consisting of old mature trees, and that natural regeneration is not in- 
frequently to be found in the form of small patches of advance growth. 
(2) Absence of Natural Regeneration. 
(a) General. 
The general complaint of most Foresters, who have had to do with 
Hardivickia binata, is that there is no reproduction to be found in the 
existing Anjan forests. This applies to both the pure and the mixed type. 
To quote but one instance of this lack of reproduction, Mr. E. E. 
Fernandez, when Conservator of Forests, Berar, wrote with reference to 
the Anjan forests of the Buldana Division ; — 
Anjan forests . — This is here a most unsatisfactory type. The 
species is incapable of attaining the dimensions of sawyer’s 
timber, and can at the most furnish small house-posts. 
But the -worst about it here is that there has been abso- 
lutely no reproduction for at least 20 years (I should have 
more correctly said 30 years), although there has been 
abundant seeding every 3-5 years. After each seeding 
numbers of seedlings come up, but all disappear before the 
end of the ensuing hot weather.” 
The matter is one of paramount importance, as upon the satisfactory 
reproduction of the species must depend the continuation of the existing 
forests. One thing is quite certain. The existing forests arose naturally, 
and not by planting, or any other artificial process. Consequently 
where such forests have arisen, and now exist, there must, at some time 
or other, have existed conditions suitable to their formation. Ha-ving 
once existed, it must surely be possible to recreate similar conditions 
for the further reproduction of these very forests. During the last four 
vears, while in charge of the Nimar Forest Di-vision, we have constantly 
kept this view before us, and we hope to show, by observations made and 
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