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and the leaves do not offer to the small fly which settles upon 

 them to lay its eggs, the nourishment necessary for the young 

 caterpillar when hatched. The plants, when about three inches 

 high, should be pricked out about two inches apart, into other 

 boxes, and lightly covered over with dry thorns to prevent 

 sparrows and other small birds from eating them. When large 

 enough to be transplanted into nursery beds, use the same 

 precaution with regard to thorns ; and lastly, place them where 

 they are to remain, in rows about eighteen inches apart, either 

 on the top of the ridge, or in the hollow the former method in the 

 rains is to be preferred. The soil should be light and rich. In 

 the cold season, the precaution of sowing the seed in boxes is 

 unnecessary, as they grow very well in small beds sown broad- 

 cast, and watered at first by the hand, after which, when re- 

 moved, they thrive extremely well. If the seed is sown as late 

 as January, you may raise a stock of plants, which come but to 

 a small size, and if kept in the beds and sheltered from hot 

 winds may be tranplanted in the rains. They produce good 

 sprouts for eating when other vegetables are scarce ; as also the 

 stalks of the old cabbages, of which, if towards the end of the 

 rains the shoots be carefully stripped off, they may be planted, 

 and a succession of cabbages be procured by this means. I have 

 known this plan adopted for years : in fact, in my own garden, 

 particularly the red cabbage I have cultivated in this way for 

 many seasons. 



06s. You cannot be too careful in examining your young 

 plants twice or thrice a day in the early part of the sea- 

 son, and having all the caterpillars picked off or destroyed. 

 Sugar-loaf cabbage and knolkhol are particularly invested with 

 them. I found that sprinkling the young plants, after water- 

 ing, with a little black pepper, caused the small green cater- 

 pillar to leave the plant immediately. Slugs and caterpillars 

 have a great aversion to pounded turmeric. 



CAPSICUM.* Hind. MIRCHEE. This plant is so well known all 

 over India has the large red pepper, that it is hardly necessary 



* Tho Chinese produce the finest Capsicums I have ever met with. 



