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posure, from the largest trees being left standing here and there, 

 had produced the same effects as elsewhere. In the very middle 

 of the stockade, and on the site of the barracks, I had the 

 curiosity to reckon the assemblage of stems on two plants, one 

 of which sent forth twenty-six and the other thirty-two, both 

 fertile in the usual proportion. I found likewise that high sum- 

 mits and steep declivities were alike favourable to the prosperity 

 of the plants ; for the stockade itself was built on the declivity 

 of a high range, and the alleys mentioned led in various wind- 

 ings down the steepest slopes. 



All this ought to convince us, that experiments judiciously in- 

 stituted, and properly prosecuted, are alone wanting to extend 

 the Cardamom farms over a much larger space ; and that more- 

 over, by the knowledge acquired in the course of this expe- 

 rience, we should most probably attain to some essential im- 

 provement in the modes of cultivation at present adopted. 



REFERENCES TO THE FIGURES. 



Tab. IV. 



A Cardamom plant about three months old, one-fourth of the 



natural size, 

 a, h. Two viviparous scions springing from its base, 

 c. The involuted leaf before evolution. 



Tab. V. 



Fig. 1. exhibits a full grown Cardamom plant, its stems cut off a 



little above the third of its height, which was 12 feet : base 



of stems immediately above the rings from 2^ to S^ inches 



ia girth. Its roots depending in their natural habit, pro- 



2 K 2 portion, 



