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required. The difficulty is greater in the hills but 1 believe 

 something could there be done on a small scale by means of 

 branch -wood manuring. 



Fruits. 

 The treatment of fruit in the Malay Peninsula is disappointing. 

 'Formerly when the plantations were fewer and isolation was 

 greater, the owners found time to plant fruit trees near their 

 houses : but until again quite newly there has been none of thi.s 

 done. In the towns men come and men go, having acquired no 

 more knowledge of the fruits of the land than another alien — their 

 Chinese cook— imparts with a spice of his own interest. Fruit 

 growing is, I think, far behind what it should be. 



The typical fruit of the country is the duriau, borne on a tree of 

 forest size and armed against bats, birds and squirrels. Its counter- 

 part of the Amazon forest is the Brazil-nut, alike borne on a big tree 

 and heavily armoured. The durian can take care of itself : nor does 

 it need encouraging in the way that many other less gross fruits do. 



The fruits suitable to the Peninsula are so many that I cannot 

 give time to tliem sevei-ally : I propose instead to give a list of them, 

 both those for the native and the European customer, and then to 

 end with remarks on a very few. I shall divide the list by the size 

 of the plant that bears the fruits. 



(i) Trees of some size — 



Aeyle marmelos, the bel ; 



Artocarpus incisa, the bread-fruit or sukun ; 

 Artocarpus integrifolia, the jack ; 

 Artocarpus gomeziana, the tampang ; 

 Artocarpus laJcoocha, the tampang manis : 

 Artocarpus polyphemia, the chempedak ; 

 Baccaurea motleyana, the rambai ; 

 Baccaurea parviflora, the setambon ; 

 Baccaiirea malayana, the tampoi ; 

 Bertliolletia excelsa, the Brazil-nut ; 

 Canarmm commune, the kenari ; 

 Diospyros mabola, the mabolo ; 

 Eugenia aquea, the jambu ayer ; 

 Eugenia brasiliensis, the Brazil cherry ; 

 Eugenia malaccensis, the jambu bol; 

 Mangifera foetida, the bachang ; 

 Mangifera indica, the mango ; 

 Mangifera odorata, the kuwini ; 

 Nephelium lappaceum, the rambutan ; 

 Nephelium malaiense, the mata kuching ; 

 Nephelium mutabile, the pulasan ; 

 Sandoricum indicium, sentol ; 

 Sandoricum radiatum, the kechapi ; 

 Terminalia catappa, the Bengal almond. 



