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Onions and Carrots (seed) ... ... 8 ounces. 



Leek and Celery ... ... ... i ounce. 



Radish nnd Endive ... ... ... i| ounces. 



Lettuce ... ... 3 ounces. 



Turnips and Parsnip ... ... ... 6 ounces. 



Beet ... ... .., 2| seers. 



Peas and Beans ... ... ... i maund. 



Jerusalem Artichoke (bulbs) ... ... 5 maunds. 



(n). Castor leaf, arum leaf, bur leaf, plantain leaf or 

 leaf-sheath, or some such article must be used in day time, 

 for protecting the seedlings against the sun, for a week after 

 transplanting. 



(12). Thorough previous preparation of land where the 

 seedlings are transplanted is necessary to avoid insect pests, 

 also use of mustard cake, ashes, lime, salt, white arsenic, as- 

 afcetida and aloes as an insecticidal mixture at the time 

 of transplanting. A handful of the mixture can be mixed 

 up with the soil where each seedling is planted. 



(13). Cabbages, knol-kohl, broad beans and tomatoes do 

 well on the heavier classes of loam and broccoli, cauliflower, 

 kidney beans, turnips onion, garlic, beet, radishes and carrots, 

 on the lighter classes. 



(i4\ Cabbages are specially benefited by saltpetre at 10 

 maunds per acre, cauliflower by mustard cake and lime 

 or ashes at 10 mds. and 5 mds. respectively per acre; but tur- 

 nips and knol-kohl are ^specially benefited by bone-super at 

 6 mds. per acre accompanied by heavy manuring with farm- 

 yard manure. Carrots and radishes prefer cowdung at 

 200 mnds. per acre, and tomatoes are specially benefited by 

 cowdung ashes. 



(15). The following mixture has been found particularly 

 good for growing English vegetables : Fowl manure, two bas- 

 kets -f powdered cowdung cake, three baskets + ashes, one 

 basket + gypsum, one basket. Moisten the whole with fresh 

 urine at the time of application of the mixture, and apply 

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