Part III] 
Rajia Rao : Notes on Sandal. 
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Kurnool sandal seed collected in the preceding January and seeds of 
one of the other species as was done at first in the ju’evious April. 
Round the honeycombs earth was loosely banked up about 2 " high but 
the interstices between the tubes or tile-cylinders were left unfilled to 
facilitate free circulation of air and escape of surplus water. One thousand 
one-hundred and forty-three bamboo tubes aud 405 tile-cylinders were 
used in this experiment. The honeycombs were watered daily. 
- The Dirsanam seed commenced germinating on the 28th of June 1906, 
next Kanuga on the 3rd of July and Teak on the 6th of July : only a few 
tamarind and Odesa seeds germinated later. The first germination of 
sandal seed was observed on the 19th of July 1906. On the 29th of 
September there were 82 sandal seedlings in the tile-cylinders and 95 in 
the bamboo tubes. There were no germinations in the rest of the bamboo 
tubes and tile-cylinders. Failures were greater in the former than in the 
latter, probably due to the narrowness of space in them. The sandal seed- 
lings associated with Kanuga were the best and largest, next came those 
associated with Dirsanam, next those associated with Odesa and last those 
with Teak. A number of tile-cylinders and bamboo tubes contained 
pure sandal seedlings, the seeds of the host plants either not having 
germinated at all or having died out soon after sprouting. 
In the middle of March 1907, some of the best grown seedlings were 
measured with the following results : — 
Sandal with Kanuga. 
Sandal with Odesa. 
Pure sandal. 
high. 
high. 
high. 
1 Sandal seedling . . . 22" 
1 Sandal . . 17" 
1 seedling . 7" 
1 „ „ ... 21" 
1 „ . . 13" 
1 „ 5" 
1 ... 17" 
1 „ . . 10" 
In above cases host plants 
stunted and sickly. 
high. 
1 Sandal ... 8" 
1 „ ... 7" 
1 „ ... 6" 
In these cases host 
plants pretty healthy and 
vigorous. 
both 
unlieathy and pale. 
All pure sandal 
seedlings were pale 
, and unhealthy and 
leaves much smaller 
than those grown 
with hosts. 
For some reason which could not be ascertained, almost all the Dir- 
sanam hosts sickened and died. Only in a few cases Teak seedling's 
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survived but were unhealthy. The tiles and tubes containing teak with 
