The Indian Forester July 1919

S. The writer of these notes was posted to the W. Almora Division just in time for the whole of the disastrous fire-season of 1916 when the greater part of the time of the D. F. O. and all the three attached gazetted officers had to be given up to rusing from fire to fire in efforts to save at least something from the general conflagration. [...] The callus tissue occluding the wound from the two sides of the blaze is thin-barked and resinous and the blaze too is of course covered with resin and even with a light358 INDIAN PORES'7'ER ground fire the channels always get burnt : the living tissues at the edges of the channel are killed and the net effect is that the width to be healed for complete closure is increased. [...] In the sections examined it was found that it takes the tree three or four years gathering impetus so to speak and healing any dried out part of the cambium at the sides of the blaze before it actually begins to diminish the width of the exposed wood A fire coming at this stage will usually kill the embryonic tissue of the callus for a distance of.about an inch along the curve which is equivale [...] That is to say; it should settle all such questions as the working circles to be formed the felling series the objects of management the adequacy of the division into blocks and compartments the period of the plan the sylvicultural systems the likelihood of change in the rotation the periods or felling cycle the method of valuation to be adopted the way the yield is to be calculated ques [...] The position of the swelling in the tube due to the authors is fairly constant being at the top in the spinaru m group and rather lower down in the carandas group.