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EUROPE. Savoy, sngar-loaf, and drum-head cabbages, (broc- 

 coli and cauliflower coming on) ; knolkhol, potatoes, beet-root, 

 French-beans, peas, love-apples, Jerusalem artichokes, radishes, 

 leeks, scorzonera, lettuce, carrots, asparagus, cucumber, water 

 cress, &c. 



COUNTRY VEGETABLES. Lussun, coolfie, chooka ka bajee, 

 brinjals, umbarie, soe, pollok, &c, Fruits as last ; oranges 

 particularly fine. 



05s. A fine crop of potatoes may be expected if sown as late 

 as the 30th. Plant out onions for store, sow beet for a late 

 stock, and put out the last of cabbage and broccoli plants. Bud 

 any trees you require, and graft by approach : plant out cuttings 

 that may have taken root in the nursery, and attend to your 

 grapes. The common sort are, near the latter end of the 

 month, brought in for sale, and sell when in full season from 

 twelve to thirty seers, or more, for the rupee. Sugar-cane is 

 now ripening. 



JANUARY- 



The weather continues fine, as last month, and your garden 

 is now in its best condition : all vegetables, enumerated as 

 coming forward last month, will be in perfection the broad 

 Windsor beans and kidney in blossom ; cauliflower in head. 



EUROPE VEGETABLES. Boor-cole, savoys, celery, beet, carrots, 

 broccoli, broad beans towards the end of the month. 



COUNTRY VEGETABLES. Are all the vegetable greens, brinjals, 

 bendee, yams, sweet potatoes, &c. 



FRUITS. Apples, oranges, pumplemose, guavas, grapes, ci- 

 trons, plantains, figs, blackberry, Cape gooseberry, papaw, and 

 strawberries : roselle going out. 



065. Peas are now going out. Attend well to the earthing 

 up of artichokes* and potatoes ; if the former are much infested 

 with flies, sprinkle them with tobacco water. During this 

 month occasional showers of rain fall. Thermometer about 

 fifty-seven degrees. 



* But in some parts of the Deccan, at Hyderabad particularly, the 

 artichokes sown in the latter end of May gave fruit in October, and crops 

 continued until June in succession. 



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