The Indian Forester October 1922

If germination is required the same year the embryo is removed bodily from the stone and kept in a mixture of sand and dung and put out in April."1922] OLIVE CULTIVATION'IN THE IONIAN ISLANDS 527 Space is insufficient to describe in detail the method of grafting the scion on to the stock. [...] The tops of the trees are cut at a height of four and a half feet from the ground in the month of January or if the weather is then very cold at the beginning of February. [...] The object of the experiment was to observe the development of these natural seedlings inside the plot as compared with those outside the plot and therefore subjected to grazing and at the same time to note carefully the rate of growth of the seedlings and to observe the method by' which they formed clumps and the period which was necessary to form clumps of an CN p!oitablc size. [...] With regard to the forest outside the plots there was really very little difference to be seen and the recuperative powers of young bamboos and the extraordinary vitality of the rhizomes was again brought strikingly to the notice of the observer. [...] On the 3oth of June which was the concluding day of the '' Forest Week " an unusually large and distinguished gathering of officials and non-official Europeans and Indians assembled in the recently enlarged hall in the Madras Forest College to witness the distribution of certificates medals and prizes to the ninth hatch of successful students.