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Cassava Jatropha Manihot. 



When the climate is favourable, the plant is of a 

 hardy nature and of easy culture. It however re- 

 quires the land to be of good quality, and the same 

 spot cannot well be employed to yield two crops of 

 it in succession. It needs a dry situation for its 

 most successful cultivation, and when spots of a 

 different nature are applied to the purpose, precau- 

 tions must be taken, by raising hillocks whereon to 

 set the cuttings, against the effects of excessive 

 moisture, which would rot the plants: some moisture 

 is, notwithstanding this, needed by the plant at its 

 earliest stages. 



There are nine different species of Jatropha enu- 

 merated by botanists, only two of which are culti- 

 vated for human food. These two are, 



