1 APPENDIX A.
2 eee ow ee re eee ee
3 DEODAR PLANTING.
4 From B, I. Bapen Poweit, Esq., co. s., Conservator of Forests, Punjab, to All Executive
5 Officers in the Punjab,—Circular No. 389A, dated Camp, Guari (Upper Ravi), the 23rd
6 - August 1872.
7 I nave the honor to call your attention to the unsystematic way in which deodar planting
8 operations have hitherto been carried on.
9 2. In each division of the Punjab for some seven years past little bitsof deodar planting
10 have been done, but it is difficult. to discover that any real progress has been made, nor is there
11 yet any place where anything like an extensive growth of deodar has been attempted.
12 5. That these results at the end of seven years are highly unsatisfactory it is impossible to
13 deny, and efforts must be made to remove the stigma that will attach inevitably to the depart-
14 ment if such a state of things long continues.
15 4. Iam persuaded that the chief cause is the fact that officers have allowed the experience
16 gained to be lost by want of recording officially and at the time, the places planted, the season
17 of sowing or planting, and of noting the dates of visits and the results observed at such in-
18 spections.
19 5. It is no use to keep such notes in private pocket-books. Officers are changed or go on
20 leave, and all such notes become useless. It,was with the greatest difficulty that for our last
21 conference information was obtained of former plantings ; in some cases it could not be had at
22 all, in others it was very meagre.
23 6. Ihave now the honor to direct that in every office a regular official note book for
24 plantations, nurseries, and forests in which operations for assisting natural reproduction have
25 been undertaken, should be opened.
26 7. No planting expenditure will, in future, be passed in the accounts which is not on
27 account of work which has been properly noted up in the book.
28 8. The examination of this book will form a part of the regular office inspection, and
29 ie stress will be laid on its maintenance, just as much as apy one of the cash-books or
30 edgers.
31 9. Officers are requested on receipt of this circular at once to open such books (which
32 should be on good paper, and bound to be permanent), and then to acknowledge the circular,
33 informing this office that the books are opened, and giving a list of the péaces which are entered
34 in the books as being the existing sites of plantations, &c., entered.
35 10. The book must be indexed, and a convenient number of pages left for each place.
36 11. The first note will be the only one of any length, giving a brief description, and should
37 briefly recapitulate the work already done.
38 The notes must state always :
39 (2).—The soil and sub-soil and its moisture.
40 (4).—The exposure, and whether there is shade and protection.
41 (c).—The angle of slope (estimated).
42 (@).—The month as well as the year of sowing or planting.
43 (e).—The results of every operation last Recalad as soon as known.
44 Exemplar note (facts partly imaginary for illustrations).
45 Kukt1 PLaNnvation.
46 An open slope covered with grass and a few bushes of veburnum, but none of wild indigo,
47 &c.; above it a good belt of A. Smithiana, one or two natural
48 deodar and P. Excelsa seedlings. Exposure N. N. W.; angle
49 of slope about 35°; soil on most parts deep “ humus,” and underneath rather stiff brown loam.
50 Rock formation, clay slate.
51 Planting, first note on 12th July 1872; soil moist from rain; holes made in diagonal lines
52 Sve arrester err about four feet apart each way; no nursery plants available ;
53 Sa ee ee planting attempted with transplants taken, &., a rather open
54 lace in a forest about three miles off, some small and good, others a little too old, and many
55 injured by nibbling; advantage is taken of shade of bushes, wherever possiblo, in putting in
56 plants ; four acres covered during two cloudy days ; 24-hours rain followed.
57 Visited, all plants healthy, except a few of the older ones. , Prepared ground for an half acre
58 Desoription.
59 September 14th nursery for future extension on level ground at foot of the
60 slope. i
61 November 16th. Nursery sown in lines with fresh seed (reported when com-
62 plete by native forester).
63 Visited all plants put out last July of the smaller kind and
64 under shade, all thriving; the larger and injured plants
65 died, &e., &e., &e.
66 April 1878.