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only 4 seedlings were healthy and vigorous and the rest stunted and 
sickly : the mint plant gradually died out and only the 4 sandal seedlings 
survived. Of these one close by which a cotton (Gossypiuni arboreum) 
plant was vigorously growing showed a rapid growth and measured 33 
inches in height early in January 1907 ; two of the others remained small 
measuring H feet and 9 inches in height while the 4th plant died out. 
On gently removing the earth round the roots of the best grown plant it 
was found that it had formed numerous root-connections with the cotton 
plant. It measured 5 '2 inches in height at end of August 1907. A 
number of sandal seedlings were growing close to a plantain tree, but I 
could discover no root-connections between them and the latter : eventually 
they died off. 
In the course of this experiment it was observed that a number of 
seedlings had been damaged by squirrels, rats and insects, and their stems 
broken off about an inch above ground in INlarch 190C. The ends of 
these stumps tliickened gradually and adventitious shoots were formed 
in some cases, while in others the seedlings died. This fact was observed 
in other exjieriments also. 
Experiment No. 3 at Diguvametta. 
5. On the 25th January 190G, a nursery bed was sown with sandal 
seed collected at Kurnool at the beainning' of the month, and watered 
daily. The first germinations were noticed on the 14th March and on 
the 22nd idem there were 100 seedlings, and on the 12th April 135 
seedlings. About the third week of June, the seedlings were somewhat 
paler than in April, and this was probably due to the pulling up of the 
weeds that had come up in the bed, by the gardener, who was ignorant 
of the root-parasitic habit of sandalwood. 
Some of the seedlings were damaged by insects and vermin when they 
were hardly two months old. A few of the damaged seedlings sent out 
lateral shoots and survived the damage while the others succumbed. 
Taking advantage of a light shower of rain that fell on the 24th June, 
all the seedlings, of which there were 218, were removed from the 
nursery with balls of earth on the 25th idem and planted out amidst and 
close to bushes of other species with a few seeds of Margosa {Melia 
Azadiraclita) and Dirsannm {Alhizzia Lelhek) so that the roots of sandal 
might attach themselves to the roots of these species when they germinated. 
The transplants were regularly watered. On the 3rd of August 1906 
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