Paet III] 
Rama Rao : Notes on Sandal. 
15i 
PART 11. 
Experime7its on in-situ soivings of Sa'adnl. 
13. A bag of fresh sandal seed was kindly supplied by the District 
Forest Officer of North Salem. This was sown mixed with seeds of 
iJirsanavi, Vena and Kaniiga in several places in the Railway Working 
Circle and at the Chenchu centres at !Maddipenta, Chinna-Mantrala and 
Pedda-Mantrala. The mode of sowing was this. A number of women 
each carrying a small quantity of the mixed seeds and a blunt pointed 
stick made shallow holes with the stick under bushes and dropped in each 
hole a sandal seed with seeds of host ])lants a few inches apart in each 
patch. Thus at every spot or patch 2 sandal^ and 2 I'epa or 2 Eirs^mafn 
or 2 Kanuga seeds were sown and lightly covered over. The sowings 
were done in July and August 1906 on or immediately after rainy days. 
The bushes under which the sowings were made consisted of such species 
as are generally found in the natural hahitat of sandal, viz., Zizynhus, 
Jlandius, if'ehera, Limonia, Toddnliay Murraya, Acacias, Ptei olohium, 
Alhizzias, Pongamia, Melia, Bamboos, etc. 
1-i. The following are the localities at which the sandal sowings 
were made in 1906 : — 
Pailway Working Circle. 
Locality. 
Date of sowing. 
Quantity of mixed 
seed sown. 
(1) Di^uvametta — Along the Sagileru 
river on both hanks from Eailway 
bridge up to first crossing of the 
old road to Malakondapenta. 
Latter part of 
June and July 
1906. 
61 seers of .sandal and 61 
seers of Fepa and Dir- 
sanam mixed. 
(2) Diguvamatta — Amidst bushes in 
horse-gram area noith of 1905 
Plantation. 
July 1906 
(3) Tungapenta — Along the Digutisela 
stream for 1| miles. 
>9 • 
6| seers of mixed seed. 
(4) Tungapenta — Along the Dadigun- 
dalu stream for about miles. 
9) • 
^2 1) 
(5) Chelama — Near Dongabhavi 
30th June 1906. 
J seer sandal with 1| 
seers of Vepa, Dirsa- 
nam and CJiinduga {Al- 
htzzio Odoratissima). 
