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cattle droppings. Strong manures are considered injurious to 
his crop. During the growing season of ajowan the climate is 
paratively cool and very dry, rain falls at very irregular 
ntervals, but at the sowing season, the soil will probably be 
- saturated with moisture, and heavy dews prevail during the 
7 early half of the ee season. The temperature in the shade 
- varies from 80° to 50° 
Rain or irrigation to he extent of about} inch weekly is 
_ required, therefore the soil is prepared for irrigation by making 
- level beds about 8 feet square enclosed by ridges about Six 
inches high, The ajowan is sown on the ridges by dibbling in 
the seeds about 6 inches apart, and coriander or fenugreek oc- 
cupies the central bed. Assuming thatthe whole field was oc- 
-ceupied by ajowan the quantity of seed required per acre would 
e 10 lbs., and the out-turn nearly 100 lbs. (G. M. Woodrow.) 
“The average value of ajowan seed is about Rs. 2 per pharrah 
35 lbs.). In 1831-82, Bombay exported 1,195 ewts. of the 
eed valued at Rs. 6,066. 
The ernde thymol manufactured in India has an = 
alue of Rs. 8 per Ib. ey aon Se 
CARUM CARUI, Linn. 
Fig.—Benil. and Trim., t. 121. Caraway (Hng.), Carvi 
irs) 
Hab.—Cashmir, Gurhwal, Persia. The fraits. 
_ Vernacular.—Indian caraways: Siyah-jira (Hind.), Guniytin 
(Cashmere.), Umbhé (Ladak.), Sa-jireé (Mar), Shimai-shira- 
m, Pilappu-shiragam (Tam.), Sima-jilakara (7el.), Shime- 
irige (Can.), Shia-jira (Beng.), Kalun-jirun (Guz.). 
UP oropeen caraways : Vilayati-jira (Hind.,Mar., Guz.), 
i, Shimai-shombu (Tam.), Kekku-vittula, Shima-sopu ( 
(Can.), ores? (beng.). hase 
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