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CRESS. It is to be sown thick in very narrow drills, about 

 one inch deep and few inches apart. It requires to be well 

 watered, and is in season all the year round. It is only used 

 for salading. The seed is sold in the bazaars, and known by 

 the name of Hallim : it should be cub for use when two inches 

 high. 



CORIANDER. Hind. DHUNNIA, KOTMEER. Grown in Native 

 gardens. 



CUCUMBER, GREEN AND WHITE. This vegetable is grown 

 from seed at all seasons. The plants should never be too close. 

 It thrives in all parts of India, and grows with much or little 

 water ; and being a creeper, if allowed to climb over sticks, or 

 trellis work, is more out of the way of jackals and porcupines, 

 who are fond of the fruit. The natives grow them in their 

 fields, in the cold season, amongst grain of various sorts, and 

 in the sandy beds of rivers during the hot weather. 



EGG-PLANT, or BRINJAL. Hind. BINEGUN. Grown commonly 

 in Native gardens ; of this plant there are many varieties. 



ENDIVE, CURLED AND FLAT-LEAVED. The seed may be sown 

 in the earliest part of the rains in beds or boxes ; the plants 

 when about two inches high should be pricked out into beds, 

 or sown in drills. They should not be nearer than one foot, 

 and when grown to their full size, must be tied up to bleach. 

 If in the rains, it is requisite that the plants should be every 

 now and then opened, to let off the water that may have col- 

 lected inside the plants, otherwise they soon decay. The method 

 adopted in England of placing a board on the plants for the 

 purpose of bleaching, will not succeed here, as the white ants 

 attack them, and the board stopping the free circulation of air, 

 prevents their growth and causes decay immediately. 



FENNEL. Grows in great abundance in all parts of India. 

 It is often confounded with aniseed. It may be sown in beds, 

 or rows, and does not require any particular care. It has a 

 perennial root, the stem dies as soon as it has given seed. 



GARLIC. Hind. LUSSUN. This is common all over India, and 

 may be grown from seed or roots the latter method is most 



