Part IT.] Bussell & Teague : Artificial Regeneration of Sal. 19 
PART III. 
General Notes on Nurseries and Planting in Bengal* 
BY 
P. T. RUSSELL, L. E. S. TEAGUE and E. O. SHEBBEARE. 
Good nurseries and nursery work are just as essential for raising 
forest trees as for any other class of plants. 
Site .—In the hills a northerly aspect is desirable below 4,000 ft., 
above this altitude a westerly or south-westerly aspect is best. The rain¬ 
fall in Bengal is 120 to 200 inches and northerly aspects above 4,000 feet 
are very moist and cold. A water supply is essential in the hills though 
not absolutely necessary in the plains where successful work, with some 
species, has been done in waterless areas. The question of soil is of 
little importance as the plants are mostly grown in soil prepared with 
leaf-mould and, for the same reason, a nursery can never become ex¬ 
hausted and a good site is only abandoned when the planting area has 
moved too far away. Mr. Bussell has found that a rotation of crops* 
in the seed bed is important and the same species should not be put in a 
bed two years running. The area must be fenced. 
Laying out .—The beds should run from east to west in the plains, in 
the hills they must, of course, follow the contour. They should be 
made in continuous lines six feet wide with only a few narrow cross¬ 
paths intersecting them but, between the beds, a gangway three feet 
wide should be left. It is a mistake to crowd the beds closer than 
this as side light and free circulation of air are most necessary. In 
the hills the land must be terraced ten feet wide. In large nurseries it is 
convenient to lead water in bamboo pipes to a series of sunken barrels 
down the middle of the area. 
*Note by Mr. Shebbeare .— 
The original nursery notes were written by me chiefly from verbal information 
supplied by Mr. Russell who also corrected them when finished—whatever was from my 
own notes related to plains species. Later, when Mr. Russell had left the district, Mr. 
Teague and I rewrote the whole with additions from our own notes, chiefly concerning 
the upper hills, plains, and Chittagong. 
A copy of this was sent to Mr. Russell for correction and another copy corrected in 
consultation with other forest officers at an informal conference. Shortly after this Mr. 
Russell sent me a copy of his notes on the middle and foot hills nursery work with tho 
suggestion that it might either be printed as it stood or incorporated ir the other note. 
I followed the latter course and hope I have included all the main points but there has 
not been time to send the whole note to Mr. Russell for revision. 
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