CHAPTER V. 

 The upkeep of the Garden. 



I . WEEDING. 



With regard to the upkeep of the garden, different 

 systems are adopted. 



1. Clean Weeding. 



2. Semi-clean Weeding. 



3. "Dirty" Gardens. 



4. Planting with Cover Plants. 



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a. Clean weeding is, when the plantation is once clean, 

 the cheapest system. The difficulty is often, that, on 

 account of lack of labour, during a short period of the 

 year, pecuniary and other causes, the gardens are left 

 unweeded and subsequently would not be entirely cleaned 

 up, as the whole labour force would be otherwise employed 

 in getting out lalang. It is therefore absolutely necessary, 

 if the system of clean weeding be adopted at all, that 

 it should be carried out systematically from the be- 

 ginning of the work and no pains should be spared to 

 this end (for examples of clean-weeding, see figs. 15 

 and 17). On a thoroughly clean weeded estate in 

 Perak, where the plant was indeed "quite clean", I saw 

 by the books that the gangs of labourers who weeded 



