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BANGALORE. 



Mean temperature 72. Quantity of rain measured, 2i inches. 



All English annuals may be put out in the beds. Geraniums 

 will do in the borders also, the white grub being no longer to be 

 feared, cauliflowers and cabbages will be near heading. 



DECEMBER- 



MADEAS. 

 Mean temperature, 76'4. Average fall of rain, 4'61 inches. 



In the beginning of the month sow French beans, scarlet run- 

 ners, broad and Windsor beans. Peas sown in this month rarely 

 pod, although they grow luxuriantly. Plant out celery from 

 boxes to beds, and remove from beds to trenches. Sow cabbages 

 and knolkhols, and transplant as above. Vegetable-marrow 

 may be sown in the early part of this month in light rich soil. 

 Earth up the stems of the plants as they increase in growth, and 

 peg the leading branches down at a joint, and they will strike 

 root. 



Potatoes may be planted until the end of this month ; but 

 those sown during the first fortnight are most likely to succeed. 

 Seed potatoes produced from England or the Cape, are greatly 

 to be preferred to those grown in this country. When potatoes 

 are planted whole, the produce is finer than when they are divid- 

 ed into two or three pieces ; but the same number of potatoes 

 yield a larger crop by the latter than by the former method. 

 Cape potatoes planted on the 18th of December made their ap- 

 pearance on the 30th of that month, and were ripe on the 16th 

 of March. Potatoes should be planted in beds fully exposed to- 

 the sun. In rather shady places the crop is small, and when 

 altogether excluded from the direct rays of the sun, they pro- 

 duce nothing. 



European vegetables are scarce during the early part of the 

 month ; but all sorts of pavekah, pumpkin, water pumpkin, 

 brinjals, podalangaw, sweet potato, or velly kelingoo, saury 

 kelingoo, yams, aivully keliugoo, and leno vulty kelingoo, are 



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