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pots) has a tendency to preserve a moisture to their roots ; and 

 shading or planting the cuttings, (if in the open air) in a shady 

 situation, prevents the bad effects of the excess of light. 



DESCENT OF THE SAP. The simple fact with respect to leaf 

 buds and branch buds seems to be that they are expanded in 

 spring by the sap, and when sufficiently so to permit the air and 

 light to convert this into pulp, it descends into the bark at their 

 base, but it is not until the leaf is fully expanded that any new 

 wood is or can be formed ; consequently it is the leaf, not the 

 leaf bud, which is the chief agent in this process. 



DESTROYING INSECTS ON VEGETABLES, &c. Sprinkle the leaves 

 over with very fine pounded sulphur tied up in a muslin bag, or 

 with woodashes from the kitchen. Fumigate also trees with to- 

 bacco smoke, or sprinkle the leaves with a solution made after 

 the following manner : to three parts of lime add one of sulphur, 

 and boil both together in one hundred parts of water : you may 

 also soak seeds in this to preserve them. 



For destroying White Ants, take a bundle of the twigs of the 

 Sarcostemma Viminale ; put it into the trough of the well by 

 which the bed or field is watered, along with a bag of salt, hard 

 packed, so that it may only dissolve gradually. Water so im- 

 pregnated destroys the ants without injuring the crop. Dry 

 twigs answer as well as green. This plant abounds in the Deccan, 

 in Gogah and the coast of Kattywar. Hind, name, Soom. 



DEW. Is the moisture insensibly deposited from the atmosphere 

 on the earth. The moisture is precipitated by the cold of the 

 body on which it appears, and will be more or less abundant not 

 in proportion to the coldness of that body, but in proportion to 

 the existing state of the air in regard to moisture. It is com- 

 monly supposed that the formation of dew produces cold, but, 

 like every other precipitation of water from the atmosphere, it 

 must evidently produce heat. 



DIGGING. This is almost always performed by the pickaxe and 

 kodallee and is the most effectual method (the spade never being 

 used by natives) . When the ground will admit, the plough, pro- 

 bably, is a quicker method. The earth thus turned up admits of 



