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the month cucumber plants and French beans should be well 

 forward. If much rain has not fallen, keep them well irrigated 

 by any means you possess. Potatoes for a first crop may be 

 sown, but, except in particular situations I have seldom seen 

 them thrive ; for if there is too much rain, they run to stalk ; 

 and if too little, from the very great heat, they wither and dry. 

 The potatoes produced are so small and few that it is almost 

 labour thrown away. Weeds are now also very troublesome, 

 and require to be removed. 



The average of rain this month may be calculated at about 

 four inches ; the Thermometer in the shade from eighty-six to 

 ninety-two degrees. 



JULY. 



This month is excessively warm, and your plants will require 

 much water if the rain has not fallen regularly, and also protec- 

 tion from the sun, though the cabbage plants should not have 

 too much, and are better watered by the hand : be careful to 

 earth up your peas and beans, which are now sufficiently for- 

 ward to climb the sticks, and should be towards the latter end 

 of the month in flower. 



EUROPE VEGETABLES in season are radishes, turnips, cab- 

 bage-sprouts, and knolkhol from old plants ; lettuce and French- 

 beans. 



COUNTRY VEGETABLES. Turnips, radishes, pumpkins, mathie 

 ka bajee, coolfie, maut ka bajee, chooka, &c. 



Obs, Peas when about six inches high may be brought into 

 blossom earlier, by having their tops nipped off about half an 

 inch. 



Fruit is now very scarce : plantains, jamoon, and a few oranges, 

 to be had. Mangoes by the latter end of the month gone 

 out. In Bombay, pines and pumplemose in abundance, also 

 custard-apples and guavas. Sow carrots, pumpkins, vegetable 

 marrow, artichokes, onions, peas, beans, turnip-radishes, &c., and 

 all the Native greens enumerated in another part of the work. 

 Be careful to smoke well your orange plants morning and even- 

 ing, by burning damp litter under, to windward of those that 



