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of nourishment from the soil were much fewer and less developed than in 
the seedlings of non-parasitic plants.) 
7. In sandal seedlings grown pure side-roots (secondary and tertiary) 
are small, poorly developed and scanty, and root-ends decay and die 
down, whereas in seedlings growing with other species they are more 
abundant, longer and healthier. 
8. Seedlings grown pure do not thrive when transplanted even with 
halls of earth in which they grow in the nursery and even when they are 
planted close to the seedlings of other species. (This inference is 
based upon the results of only one experiment and therefore requires 
further investigation.) This may probably be due to the inability of 
sandal roots to reach and attach themselves to the roots of the host 
plants, owing to the scanty development of their root system. 
9. Sandal seedlings raised with seedlings of other species, the seeds be- 
ing mixed at the time of sowing are more successful, healthy and vigorous. 
10. Although the sandal plant may attack roots of almost any plant, 
it shows a decided preference for some species, in whose company it 
grows best ; for example, in the above experiments, Pongamia glabra and 
cotton plants {Gossgpium arhoreum) have been found to be the best; 
next Alhizzia Lehheh j next CleistaoitJnis collinus and so on. 
11. For transplanting purposes the best method of raising sandal 
seedlings in a nursery is to sow the seed with that of the host in tile- 
cylinders above the ground and to remove and plant out the whole 
cylinder, thereby causing the least disturbance and damage to the roots 
and their attachments : basket-cylinders may prove as good as tile- 
cylinders but they are liable to destruction by white-ants or by rotting. 
12. The tile-cylinders may he transplanted when the sandal seedlings 
are 4" to 6" high : bigger plants up to 2' high have been transplanted 
successfully, but their roots are liable to injury when lifting in the 
nursery, especially when they have attached themselves to foreign roots 
at the bottom of tile-cylinders as usually happens. 
13. The transplants require to he watered gently but copiously until 
they are well established. 
14. If the host plants show signs of exhaustion or decay, other vigor- 
ous hosts should be planted at once close to the sandal seedlings without 
disturbing and damaging their roots. 
15. Transplanting close to or amidst suitable host plants already 
existing on the site would be conducive to quicker and more vigorous 
growth of the sandal. 
