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is given out for sowing when soaking wet. This method has been found 
to give good and very even germination. Another method, said to be 
equally effective, is to dig a pit 2 or 3 ft. deep and 3 or 4 ft. square and fill 
it with water. When this has run out, line the bottom and walls with 
teak leaves. Soak the seed for 24 hours in water warmed by the sun 
during the day and put it into the pit with a layer of teak leaves 
between the layers of seed. Before filling the pit in this manner 5 
bamboo water pipes, one in the middle and one from each corner, the 
latter laid aslant, are put in position so that, when the pit has been filled 
up and six inches of earth put over all, water can reach all the layers. 
The seed is kept in the pit for ten days and thoroughly watered every 
day. It is best sown at stake, 4 or 5 seeds well apart in the thali with 
a nursery, which should not be shaded, for filling vacancies. This 
should be done when the plants have 4 leaves besides the cotyledons. 
There is no need to wait until the rains break before sowing which 
may be done any time after the third week of March if the area to be 
sown is large, though probably the best time is the first week of April. 
The early growth is very rapid in Chittagong. It attains 2 to 4 ft. 
by the end of its first rains, 10 to 12 ft. by the end of the second 
rains, 20 ft. to 22 ft. by the end of the third and 30 to 32 at the end 
of the fourth. By its eighth year it attains 50 ft. or even more. In the 
Bamonpokri plantation dominant trees about 50 years old have a girth 
of 4 ft. 6 ins. to 5 ft. 6 ins. though they have suffered from insufficient 
thinning during a good deal of their life. One tree 53 years old has a 
girth of 7 ft. 2 ins. About the same girth has been attained in 25 years 
in Chittagong. Teak is badly defoliated by a caterpillar which has 
not yet been identified. It attacks the trees in May and June and 
strips every leaf. In young plantations in which the crowns have not 
closed up it is noticeable that the isolated trees are not so liable to 
the attack from which it is thought that mixture with a suitable shade 
bearer might afford protection. 50 seeds per oz. 
Terminalia myriocarpa .—Panisaj in Nepalese. Foot hills up to 
5,000 ft. It seeds early in January, only some trees producing fertile seed. 
2 lbs. of seed to the kamra should produce 200 seedlings. It should 
be sown in March in shaded beds, thickly, as it germinates badly. It 
will then be ready to prick out in shaded beds at the beginning of May 
and put out in July. Its growth is rapid, at 4,000 ft. 6-year-old trees 
averaged 1 ft. 2 ins. in girth, the largest being 2 ft. 
Tetrameles nudiflora .—Mainakat in Nepalese. Plains and foot-hills 
(especially the latter) up to 3,000 ft. Seeds March and April. 8 oz. 
will sow a kamra as the seed is very fine. It is said to germinate 
badly but it has not been tried much. 
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