Part 111.] Witt: Sylviculture of Hardwiclda hinata. 119 
Soil . — 6 inches of dry reddish sandy loam, then hard nioorum, very 
little disintegrated and with few fissures, requiring a pick to 
break it, down to a depth of 18 inches from the surface, 
passing over into solid trap rock. 
Plot II. — Situation. — On the flat top of a small ridge within a 
quarter of a mile of Plot I. Surrounded by tree growth, the 
plot itself under the shade of a Salai {Boswellia serrata) tree. 
Surface covering . — A dense growth of long grass, 30 inches in height, 
with roots penetrating into the soil to a depth of 6 inches. 
<SofZ.— Six inches of good loam, followed by 6 inches of a mixture 
of loam and moorum. Then 18 inches of loose, disintegrat- 
ing moorum with harder portions between, gradually passing 
over into hard moorum and trap rock. 
Experiment 1. 
Date of counting of 
number of living 
seedling.s. 
No. or SEEDLINGS ALIVE. 
Age of 
seedlings. 
Remarks. 
Plot I. 
Plot 11. 
y. M. 
10th Jklarcli 1906 
41 
61 
0 8 
Kith July 1906 
0 
40 
1 0 
3rd December 1906 . 
1 
45 
1 5 
29th September 1907 
0 
43 
2 3 
22nd March 1908 
37 
2 9 
6th August 1908 
35 
3 1 
7th January 1909 
36 
3 6 1 
The first thing to strike us in comparing these results is the complete 
dying out of the seedlings on Plot I in the first year, and, secondly, that 
they all died between the months of March and July, that is, during the 
hot dry season. 
On the other hand, in Plot II, taking the number 45 counted on 3rd 
December 1906, we find that no less than 74 per cent, of the seedlings 
survived. 
