92 Brigade- Surgeon J. ]i. 'J\ Aitchison's Notes on Products 



very much superior to the product of these parts. Animals 

 are fed on the unripe cotton pods ; the ripe shells of the pods 

 are employed in the manufacture of gunpowder, and from 

 the seeds an oil is extracted ; the refuse of the seeds after 

 the extraction of the oil are used to feed cattle on. The 

 prosperity of any village can be well estimated from the 

 number of cotton-gins, spinning-wheels, and reels for winding 

 silk that are seen exposed on the house-tops. 



Gourds, or Pumpkins, the fruit of Lagenaria 

 VULGARIS, Benincasia ceeifera, Cucurbita 

 Pepo — kadu, thamhal, sabcha. 

 Gdz — -jy^ — a nut, a walnut, the fruit of Juglans regia. 

 Goz-i-kand — l-*^j>^ — [tlie hard nut]. The Thorn- 

 apple, Datura Stramonium, 

 Goza — rijyi — guza, koza — the fibre cotton, yielded 

 by the plant Gossypium herbaceum ; also the 

 cotton pod ; the cocoon of the silk-worm ; the 

 capsule of the poppy ; the Cardamom fruit ; a nut. 

 Graft — a graft, kalam ; to graft, jjeivand-kardan ; 

 grafted, pewandi. 

 The gardener's art of grafting is well known, and all the 

 better class of fruits are raised by grafting, as the Peach, the 

 Pear, the Apricot, the Quince, the Cherry, and the Mul- 

 berry. 



Grain — a grain, a seed, a berry — chdm, ddna, hah. 



Gram — an Anglo-Indian term in the Punjab for 

 the pulse of Cicer arietinum ; in other parts of 

 India for the pulse of some other plant. 



Grapes — the fruit of Vitis vinifera. 



Grape -boxes — 



These are for the export of fresh grapes to India ; they 

 are usually made of the wood of Populus nigra or of a 

 Salix; they are circular boxes, about 12 inches across, and 

 from 4 to 5 inches deep. 



Grape-sugar — kand-a-shlra-gld. 



Ordinarily only a syrup is obtained from grapes, very like 

 that form of treacle in England that goes by the name of 



