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splendid wells, and last for many years, and always look 

 clean and tidy. No weeds of any sorfc should be allowed to 

 grow; the beds should be picked up regularly once a month. 

 In the hot weather it is an excellent plant to thatch the 

 surface of the beds -with dry jungle leaves or old straw. 

 This prevents the soil cracking, as it is very apt to do, being 

 watered in the hot weather; and besides this a certain 

 amount of water goes a longer way, and does not evaporate 

 so rapidly, in fact moisture is thus easily maintained. All 

 watering should be done in the morning or evening, and 

 never during the heat of the day. A Nursery should not 

 be too rich, neither should the plants be unnecessarily 

 " forced." It is always better to let the change to the 

 plantation from the nursery be a change for the better for 

 the plants, and nothing but failure can be expected from 

 transplanting a highly forced plant to a poor hill side where 

 probably the hole has been made and nothing else done in 

 the way of forming a fitting reception for the seedling 

 which has been hitherto accustomed to every luxury and 

 care. A plant when removed for planting should be grow- 

 ing, and should under no circumstances be at "a stand still." 

 A hastily grown plant probably has several primary bran- 

 ches and may have very few roots. Obviously the reverse 

 is what should be desired,-a robust plant with perhaps only 

 one pair of primaries, or even without any; but with a healthy 

 pair of young light colored leaves at the top, and plenty of 

 roots. Such when planted in a well filled hole never stops 

 growing and evidently never feels or sustains any material 

 check from the operation of transplanting. In concluding 

 these remarks I should wish to draw attention to Acclimatized 

 seed. Some years ago I procured some vegetable seeds from 

 a well known firm in England and was greatly disappointed 

 with the result. I however kept the seed of the first crop and 

 sowed it the following season and gave some to my friends. 

 There was a marvellous improvement, and I and my friends 

 without exception had the fines b vegetables that had ever 

 been produced in this Talook, Elated with success we again 



