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and long varieties (" tolmalikia ") are grown ; the latter 

 have less fleshy scales than the former. 



Onions are grown either in irrigated gardens or in 

 " livadhia," or low-lying lands which retain their moisture, 

 no irrigation being needed. They are propagated by 

 means of " konari " or bulblets. Lapithos in the Kyrenia. 

 district makes a speciality of producing these from seed 

 and supplying them to the whole Island, although onions 

 are grown for market only on a limited scale in that area. 

 The method is to plant out the full-grown onions (locally 

 called " mammes ") and leave them to ripen their seed. 

 The seed is sown in February-March, at the rate of 20-25 

 okes per donum, from which some 3,000 okes of " konari tf 

 are raised. These are then sold for planting out in October- 

 NovemberDecember at the rate of 4050 okes per donum. 



Onions are grown either in rows or broadcast. The 

 native variety has the outer scales of a reddish colour, 

 but these have largely given way to superior imported 

 kinds. 



FODDERS AND FEEDING STUFFS 

 Carob Tree 



The carob (Ceratonia siliqua) is indigenous in Syria,, 

 and probably also in the northern countries of Africa,, 

 whence it presumably spread to certain parts of Asia 

 Minor, to Greece, the Greek Islands and Southern Italy. 



At the time of Christ, and for some centuries later,, 

 this tree was known to the Greeks by the name of keronia 

 or keratea, being the Greek for horns, and is given to the 

 locust or carob bean from its supposed resemblance to 

 goats' horns. It is also known in different parts of Cyprus 

 under the following names ; teratsia (a corruption of 

 keratea), xylokeratea, kountouroudia, koutsoupia and 

 charoupia. The last named is of Arabic origin (kharroub) 

 and the same root of the word is common all over Europe. 

 Moreover, the fruit varies slightly according to locality, and 

 develops local characteristics which have acquired for it 

 distinctive local names ; thus in Kyrenia District we have 

 templiotike and kyrionitike, in the Karpas there is the 

 sarakine (introduced by Saracens ?) and elsewhere the 

 vaklitike and kombote*. This bean or pod, which when; 



