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during 2 or 3 previous years need not be related, because the 
failure was due to causes that everyone ought to know to avoid, 
namely lack of sufficient care and cultivation 
others merely started in a bed in the ground, which was kept 
watered, were transplanted also in the first rains and did well. 
The ground where the trees were planted permanently was all 
cleared and burnt over before the rains, and a small space was dug 
up with a hoe at the spot where each tree was to stand. I had not 
started enough seedlings to fill all the places thus prepared, and in 
the remaining places I planted seeds. ese came up very poorly— 
in fact, only a small fraction came up. Some seemed to be rotted 
by the abundant rain ; many seemed to be unable to break through 
the hard crust formed on the surface of the ground by the rain and 
hot sunshine during the long time it takes them to germinate. 
They might perhaps have come up better if planted shallower. 
Yet I think the best way is to plant the seeds in papers or beds 
before the rains begin, and water; and then transplant during 
the rains. 
As for the growth of all these plants started in these various 
ways it has been, during the eight months up to the present time, 
mainly in proportion to the amount of hoeing they have had. 
most parts of the ground, native crops have been planted between 
and about the little trees. Maize did not seem to hinder their 
growth, but cassava, and especially sugar-cane did so, if planted t 
close. One crop seemed to be not only not a hindrance, but a positive 
aid to the growth of the little trees, and that is ground-nuts. T 
may be due to the fact that the patches of ground-nuts were care- 
fully tended and kept free from weeds by the native women, and 
were then all thoroughly dag up when the crop was dug. But I 
think possibly the plants of Arachis hypogaea have some positive 
benef cial effect on the soil, At any rate the little Funtumia trees 
growing where the rows ran through native ground-nut patches 
