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be found the most productive. Fine crops of potatoes . have 

 been grown where hemp has been first sown, and when about 

 two feet high ploughed up into the ground. If, when your 

 potatoes are about flowering, you perceive any of the stalks 

 wither, carefully open the earth and look for a grub, which you 

 may be certain is feeding upon it of course destroy it. When 

 these grubs are very numerous, it is necessary to search all the 

 drooping plants daily : my idea is, that the larvae is brought 

 with the manure, and is the deposit of a beetle however, 

 nothing can be done but destroying them. I have heard recom- 

 mended a bag with a small quantity of asafcetida to be placed 

 in the water-course, as a remedy, when the plants were being 

 irrigated. Here again is another insect which deposits its egg 

 on the stalk of the plant. In the rains a small caterpillar eats 

 its way into the stalk above the ground, when the plant im- 

 mediately droops : the remedy is to remove the whole. Be 

 careful at all seasons to keep the stalks well earthed up, and let 

 the potatoes have a moderate supply of water of course the 

 season must be your guide. I, one year, at Kunhur, raised a 

 very fine crop of potatoes during the rains, by sowing them on 

 ridges, and only watered them at first in consequence of want 

 of rain : they were sown in the beginning of July, and a few 

 taken up in September (the latter end). Some of the potatoes 

 weighed from five to seven ounces, and were equal to any I 

 have seen grown on the hills. 



In the latter end of August, by way of experiment, I tore off 

 shoots from the lower end of the stalks, when they were 

 abundant, and planted them in rows, the same distance as for 

 seed ; and in November, on taking them up, was gratified by 

 finding four or five large potatoes produced by each stalk, the 

 size of a duck egg. This plan I strongly recommend to those 

 persons who may not be able to get fresh seed after the rains. 

 I did not find that the rows of potatoes from which the slips 

 were taken produced fewer potatoes in consequence, as I 

 weighed the whole and kept a memorandum in my journal. 



PUMPKIN. Hind. KUDDOO BED AND WHITE. This vegetable 

 grows in great abundance in all parts of the Deccan. It is 



