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GARDEN CROPS. 



.NAME OF CBOP. 



STATISTICS PER ACRK 



The above are grown chiefly by Kdchhis, and are therefore generally 

 known as kachhidna. I have described elsewhere (para. 76) the incessant 

 labour the market gardener class bestow on their crops, which are grown in 

 the best land of a village, that near the site. 



The ground for baingan (also called bhdtd) l is, if necessary, manured with 

 about 160 maunds per acre, and the ground ploughed three or four times. It 

 is sown in Asdrh (i. e.,at fall of the rains), lib. seed per acre being sown in 

 seed-beds and the seedlings planted out. The plant is dug up (gurai) twice and 

 weeded eight or nine times, and as it occupies the ground the whole year it is 

 watered every week after the rain ceases to fall, and " nona" (or saline earth) 

 is applied to the roots. The plant fruits from November to March, the ripe 

 fruit being pulled daily. It is much grown by Kewats (malldhs) on the kachhdr 

 lands of the Jumna. 



The other vegetables are grown much in a similar manner ; weedings and 

 waterings vary, but as the gardener is at one or the other from morning to 

 night, and the general result to him is more wanted in this place than a hand- 

 book on gardening, it is unnecessary to give further details. 



1 Bddinjdn, Pers., corrupted into brinjdl. 



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