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plants happen to be raised at one time they may be carefully sep- 
arated, each with its fair share of surrounding soil. They are then 
transplanted into the holes of the Nursery beds The Nursery beds 
should be covered with light atap coverings as quickly as possible, 
at about 2 feet off the ground to facilitate future watering. The 
supports for the ataps and the ataps would be ready cut before 
commencing transplanting. The atap covering may be removed 
after 3 weeks, to a month, when the plants have got over the shock 
of transplanting and the roots have laid hold of the soil. Weeding 
should be carried out now. 
(II). Pricking out into Tile-pots: — The method to be described 
is commended to be adopted in preference to the one above, because 
of the length of taproot the Casuarina develops. Seedlings 6 inches 
high often have a descending anis or root of a foot length. 
A tile-pot is formed by placing two semi-cylindrical tiles together 
edge to edge, so as to form a cylinder about 5 inches in diameter 
and 10 inches length. Square beds of 4 feet 3 inches sides (depen- 
ding on the diameter of the cylinders are exc ivated to a depth of 
one foot depending on the length of tile used) which will hold 100 
tile-pots in each bed. All preparations for atap coverings being 
got ready, the bottom of the beds should be lined with a larger of 
potsherds to prevent the roots penetrating the soil below and thus 
confining them within the pots, they will also abort and drain ofif any 
excess of water. Now the 3 months seedlings will be raided from 
the seed-beds and pricked out into these tile-pots each of which may 
be bound with thin split rotan and previously prepared for their 
reception by a slight watering. The cylinders are placed together 
side by side in the excavated beds till they form a honeycomb 
filling the whole up flush with the surface of the ground, The 
plants should be watered daily in the absence of rain. The atap 
covering will he removed when the seedlings are established in the 
pots. By using pots the. root growth of the seedlings is restrained 
and little or no shock is received in transplanting into the field. All 
failures can be counted and replaced if possible and the number fin- 
ally removed into tbe field can be definitely known. 
“ Bamboo pots ” made by sawing* a*bamboo up below each suc- 
cessive node, are not to be recommended as they per ^attract wftjte 
ants, especially when crowded together. They are also more ex- 
pensive, requiring to be “ split ” before final transplanting in the 
open, whereas tile-pots are merely halved and can be used again. 
(<?). Protection from Insects.— Tender or herbaceous, />., non- 
lignified steins are liable to be attacked by crickets and grasshop- 
pers and signs of these should be watched for and the insects driven 
off. 
if)- Pitting and Transplanting into Pits. — Before pitting the 
area to be planted should be thoroughly cleared of resam ( Gleichenia 
linearis) Sendudok (. Melastoma polyanthum Bl. and allied species) 
commonly called Singapore Rhododendrons, Lalang (Imperata 
cylindrical Beauv.) and other weeds including useless small shrubs ; 
