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where they are to remain. As these plants throw out suckers 

 very fast, they must be constantly looked after, and removed 

 unless you have a scarcity of plants. They will commence 

 bearing in six months from the time of sowing the seed. 



You may as soon as the rains have ceased, put your suckers 

 that have rooted into square beds, each not less than one foot 

 apart, five in a row : this will give you twenty-five in each bed 

 as many as can be easily looked after and gathered without 

 trampling on the bed and thereby injuring the plants. When 

 the earth is of a clayey consistence, I have seen the strawberry 

 cultivated on ridges. Some think this is a good plan, but I 

 prefer the beds : however, it can be easily tried. It is some- 

 times necessary, in consequence of flooding the beds, to put tiles 

 under the fruit to keep it clean, but it also attracts the notice 

 of the birds : if straw or grass be used, then the chances are that 

 white ants destroy your plants. This it is that makes some per- 

 sons prefer the ridge system of growing, as they say the fruit is 

 cleaner in consequence : all 1 know is, that fine fruit may be 

 grown either way ; and if on ridges, the same distance must be 

 allowed between the plants as in beds and even in the latter 

 the plants may be put on raised cones of earth. The common 

 vegetable manure is all that is required at first until near flower- 

 ing, when a handful or two of goats' or sheep's dung should be 

 put round the plant, opening the earth and scraping it together. 

 Water during the evening and very early in the morning. 



GARCINIA PURPUREA. Guttiferce. WILD MANGOSTEEN. NAT. 

 KOKTJM.BRINDAO. A very elegant tree, of a conical form, 

 branches drooping, leaves dark green ; fruit round and smooth, 

 size of a crab apple, when ripe of a purple colour throughout the 

 inside ; and of an agreeable flavour, it is much used at Goa for 

 jellies and syrup, the tree grows to the height of thirty feet and 

 is found in the Concan, and along the Malabar Coast. 



GARCINIA MANGOSTANA. The Mangosteen. This tree has been 

 introduced from Singapore into Bombay, but the fruit has never 

 been brought to any perfection : probably if grafted on the 

 Brindoa, which is common in the Concan, (and several trees are 



