140 Indian Forest Fecords. [VoL. II 
there were only 159 plants alive, and on the 25th idem only 141 alive and 
these pale and sickly : on 29th September the number had dwindled to 
101, and the seedlings looked very unhealthy. In the latter part of 
October there were 33 transplants alive, and on 21st November only 12. 
In most cases the seedlings of Margosa and Dirsanam also died. On 
examining the roots of some sandal transplants I found them unhealthy 
with very few secondary roots and rootlets and no attachments to 
roots of other plants. On the 9th January 1907 only 2 transplants were 
alive and these in a dying condition. Subsequently these too died. 
The experiment thus ended in failure, not even a single sandal seedling 
having been established out of the 218 transplanted. 
Experiment JSo. 4 at Diguvamelta. 
6. In the second week of April 1906, 705 bamboo tubes 2 to 3 " in 
diameter and 10 " long with 4 or 5 holes bored in the septum at the 
bottom node of each to allow surplus water to escape, and 536 pot tiles 
were arranged honeycomb-wise in the nursery as shown in the illustra- 
tion Plate X and filled with friable loamy soil up to an inch below 
the top, the soil being pressed down firmly : water was poured into each 
to further consolidate the soil. To keep the honeycomb in position, earth 
was put round them up to the top. In each of the tubes or tile-cylinders, 
3 sandal seed and 2 of Kanuga [Vongamia glabra), Neeroddi {Dolichan- 
drone crispa), Odesa {Cleistanthus colli mis), Vepa [Melia Azadirachta), 
Dirsanam [Albizzia Lehhek), Chennangi [Lagerstroemia parviflora), 
Teak, or Tamarind were put in and watered daily and regularly. None 
of the sandal seed germinated and only a few Neeroddi, Dirsanam and 
Odesa sprouted up. On the 23rd June, when the sandal seed was exami- 
ned it was found to have rotted in every case. I believe the failure of 
this experiment was due to the stagnation of water in the tiles and 
tubes the soil in which had become too hard to allow the surplus water to 
run through, and to insufficient aeration due to the interstices between 
and round the tiles and tubes having been filled in with earth. 
7. On the 23rd June 1906 all the tiles and bamboo tubes were pulled 
up and after cutting off the nodes of the tubes and splitting each of 
them into two, they were re-arranged into honeycombs and held in 
position by bamboos horizontally laid between forked uprights fixed in 
the ground at the corners of each honeycomb. The tubes and tile- 
cvlinders were lightly filled in with good fresh soil and sown with 
