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successors may reap many fruits resulting from 

 experience dearly bought by us ? 



Then, again, it has to be confessed that there are 

 great and serious difficulties in the way of keeping 

 up that constant, unremitting care and culture 

 which appear necessary to maintain in a state of 

 perfect health a plant which, however hardy in 

 some respects, is after all an exotic in our Indian 

 settlements, and is moreover being grown under a 

 forced and artificial system. 



Experience shows us every day how irremediable 

 is the damage that . may result from even a short 

 temporary neglect of weeding, a contingency often 

 unavoidable, owing to scarcity of labour ; or from 

 improper, reckless pruning, which may be the work 

 of a few days, under an inexperienced or careless 

 superintendent ; or from a failure to supply the 

 trees with due support, in the shape of manure, 

 when they may have become exhausted from over- 

 bearing. 



Moreover, it is impossible to lose sight of the 

 diseases, blights, &c., to which the plant itself is 

 subject ; which may, indeed, arise from circum- 

 stances unfavourable to the plant, which we shall 

 become cognizant of by-and-by, but which are 

 certainly, in the meantime, likely to prove to a 

 greater or less extent a cause of decay. 



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