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cially the latter. When transplanted for the last time, they 

 should be put in well manured trenches, at two feet from each 

 other. Horse manure and ground bones are strongly recom- 

 mended for all the cabbage tribe. With care, cabbage and 

 knolkhol may be procured during every month in the year. 



Cape, or English seed potatoes may be planted during the 

 first week of this month ; and, if the season prove cool, they may 

 be expected to arrive at considerable perfection. The early part 

 of December is a more favourable time for planting potatoes ; 

 but it is hardly possible to procure fresh seed-potatoes from 

 England before the beginning of January. 



In this month the following vegetables and fruits are some- 

 times procurable in the market, in small quantities and at high 

 prices, carrots, turnips, cabbage, knolkhol, beet-root, salad, 

 negro-salad, Bombay and country onions, Surat onions, beans, 

 country beans, double beans, Vellore beans, French beans, white 

 beans, Goa beans, and peas, (the last always dear, and seldom 

 good,) pumplemose, Manilla and camala orange, chota orange, 

 country orange, pomegranate, guavas, apples, limes, jack fruit, 

 figs, red plantain, yellow plantain, thurmerten fruit, bilimbi, 

 and occasionally mangoes. 



BANGALORE. 



Mean of the thermometer, 70. Quantity of rain measured, none. 

 In this month, most of the culinary vegetables are in great 

 perfection. Grapes, apples, pine -apples, and also a few straw- 

 berries and peaches, are in season. Such apple trees as have 

 finished bearing may be pruned, although it would be better to 

 delay it until the ensuing month. Sow seeds of such vegetables 

 as peas, radish, spinage, &c., that do not require more than three 

 months to come to perfection. 



FEBRUARY. 



MADRAS. 



Mean temperature, 77'7. Average fall of rain, 0'04 inches. 

 The remarks on last month apply generally to this ; but there 

 is less chance of success in rearing vegetables, as they seldom 

 acquire much strength before the hot winds set in. Turnips and 



