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Indian Forest Records. 
[ VOL. 11 
PART I. 
Nursery Experiments. 
Experiment Eo. 1 at Dipuvametta. 
3. Ill October 190.j, a small qiiautity of seed was obtained from the 
Bellary District. The seed was old and had been collected probably a 
year previously. One bed in the nursery was sown with sandal seed on 
the ’Zlth Nov^ember 1905, and it was watered regularly. On the same 
date, some seed was dibbled in amidst bushes on the banks of the Sagileru 
and along the western fence of the teak plantation but these were not 
watered. Neither in the nursery nor in the dibbled area did any seed 
germinate for two months. The sowings proved a failure, due most 
probably to the age of the seed, as in other respects every care and 
attention were bestowed on the experiment. 
Experiment No. 2 at Kurnool. 
4. On the 2nd January 1906, a small nursery bed was prepared after 
digging the soil to a depth of 1 ^ feet to ensure freedom from roots of 
other plants in the compound of my bungalow at Kurnool. It was sown 
with sandal seed collected under a few sandal trees growing on the canal 
bank and also a few ripe fruit picked off the trees that morning. The 
bed was regularly watered once a day. Two seeds germinated on 2nd 
February, 2 more on the 9th, 2 on the 15th, 1 on the 20th and 3 on the 
23rd idem; and some were still germinating. On the 28th idem 6 of the 
seedlings measured 2j to 3^ inches in height and had 3 pairs of leaves 
omitting the cotyledons. 
In the middle of March 1906, the bed was divided into two by a 
small bund and in one of them peppermint (Mentha piperita) was planted 
between the sandal seedlings while the other was left untouched. In 
June the roots of the sandal seedlings were found to havm formed root 
attachments with the peppermint plant in the one bed while in the other 
they were unattached and their leaves looked paler than those of the 
former bed. Gradually the purely grown seedlings became paler and 
sicklier and all of them died off before the end of December 1906. An 
examination of their roots showed that rootlets and root-fibres were scanty, 
ill-developed and unhealthy and the ends of the tap-roots were dead in 
most cases. Among the seedlings associated with the peppermint plant, 
