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the age of seven years, and increases in produce till the fifteenth 

 year, and is said to continue prolific for sixty or eighty years. 

 Seven months in general elapse between the appearance of the 

 blossom and the ripening of the fruit ; and the produce of one 

 bearing tree with another, under good cultivation, in the 

 fifteenth year may be calculated at five pounds of nutmegs, 

 and a pound and a quarter of mace. It bears all the year round, 

 but more plentifully in some months than others, and generally 

 yields more abundantly every other year. It is necessary that 

 the roots of the trees during their growth should be kept well 

 covered with mould, for they have a tendency to seek the 

 surface. The growth of the lateral branches is to be alone 

 encouraged, and all suckers, or dead and unproductive branches, 

 are to be removed with the pruning knife, and the lower shoots 

 lopped off, with the view of establishing an unimpeded circula- 

 tion of air." Penang Gazette. 



MYRTUS COMMUNIS. Myrtacece. NAT. VILATI-MINDI. Myrtle. 

 Very common in all the gardens ; grows well by layers, and 

 even cuttings. This shrub requires careful pruning, and after 

 the rains all the leaves, on which insects have deposited their 

 larvse must be removed, or the plant will lose its verdure and, 

 beauty by the destructiveness of the young caterpillars. 



NAUCLEA CADAMBA. Eubiacece. NAT. KUDUMBA. This tree 

 grows to a very large size, common about villages ; the fruit is 

 eaten by the Natives, who esteem the tree as " holy." 



NEPHELIUM LITCHI. Sapindacece. This tree, originally from 

 China, is an ever-green, and grows to a large size. The fruit 

 is of a dark brown colour, and contains a glutinous yellow sweet 

 sort of pulp : it is not much prized perhaps from its inferior 

 quality to the Chinese fruit, which is much esteemed. The 

 fruit ripens in March and April. 



NERIUM ANTIDTSENTERICUM. Apocynacece. NAT. INDURJAU. 

 A common shrub flowers in April and May in terminal 

 corymbs. The bark is used as an astringent. 



NERIUM OLEANDER. NAT. KARZAHRA. DOUBLE RED AND 

 WHITE. This grows wild on the banks of rivers, bearing both 



