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Saccharum. —— SRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 943 
om their best lands, which can be easily watered; but, unless the 
farmer pleases, not easily flooded during violent rains. — — 
The land is first well ploughed during the month of April and bie. 
ginning of May. ‘Phe field is then flooded from the river, if there - 
is not sufficient rain; the upper part of the cane is then cut into 
two lengths of one or two joints each, (the lower part of the same 
canes are employed to make sugar from) these are placed over the 
wet field, at about fifteen or eighteen jnches asunder, in rows, the - 
rows about four feet from one another, and trode under the soft 
wet surface with the foot; in six days after the plántiug, the field 
| ‘is again flooded, if there has not been rain.. In about eight days 
more the shoots appear; the land is soon after slightly. hóed, and 
weeded. A month after the planting some rotten chaff, or other | such 
manure, is scattered about the young plants, Every ten or fifteen 
days, if there be not sufficient rain, the field is watered ; two months 
from the planting, some stronger manure is strewed about the plants; 
and every fifteen or twenty days the field is slightly hoed, aud the 
weeds rooted out. 
- During the wet season, drains must be made, to carry off the su- i 
‘ perabundant water. By August or September, the cane will be from 
three to five feet high; in each shoot, the produce of every cut- 
l ting, which may contain from three to six canes, a straight I bamboo 
is stuck into the earth, in the centre ; to this the canes are ‘tied | by 
their leaves. In this country the leaves are never stript from the 
cane, but as they wither are tied round them, This must impede 
the freé circulation of air, which may be conceived hurtful. In 
January, viz; between nine and ten months from the time they weré 
t oii the cane, when stript of its leaves, and the useless top cut 
off, will be about as thick as a good stout walking « cane, and from | 
four tó six feet long 7 they then begin to cut the caue, express ‘the 
: Juice, ax boil me TE WiN i is — the natives here, a Very sim- 
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In Bengal there are three varieties cultis ine. 
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