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 MAY. 



MADRAS. 



Mean temperature, 86'8. Average fall of rain, 077 inches. 

 Melons, cucumbers, love-apples, and Nepaul spinage, may be 

 sown during this month ; also successive crops of the cabbage 

 tribe, and mustard and cress. Mangoes, oranges, pine-apples, 

 pumplemoses, red and yellow plantains, and grapes, are sup- 

 plied abundantly. Brinjals, greens, peerkengah, drumstick or 

 moornngakaw ; and in flowers, all sorts of mallgay flowers are 

 to be had plentifully in the market. 



BANGALORE. 



Mean temperature, 81. Quantity of rain measured, 3 inches. 

 Sow vegetable marrows, pot off more Gladioli and Achimenes, 

 plant Dahlia roots, after the 20th sow a first supply of Asters, 

 Balsams, Am'aranthus, Convolvoli, Verbena, Petunias, prepare 

 and manure grass land. 



JUNE. 



MADRAS. 

 Mean temperature, 88. Average fall of rain, 1*46 inches. 



If the season is at all favourable, this is a very desirable time 

 to sow the first crop of celery, beet-root, and asparagus, in 

 boxes, for transplanting towards the latter end of August or 

 beginning of September. 



Cabbage seed may be sown in boxes in all this month. If 

 the weather be favourable for transplanting, they should be put 

 out in beds in the following month, and finally transplanted in 

 August. In ordinary seasons good cabbage may be procured in 

 this manner during the whole of October, November and 

 December, by which time peas and other vegetables become 

 abundant. If the weather should continue very hot during 

 September, without showers, the plant should be kept in the 

 boxes until the end of September or beginning of October. 



As it is desirable to get strong celery plants before the mon- 

 soon, fresh seed should be sown every fortnight from the middle 

 of June until the end of October. Beet also should be sown in 



