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breaks) the Brahmaputra Co.'s gardens, Badulipar, Rangagora, &c. 

 At Nigriting there is plenty of silt in the hullahs, which is excellent 

 as manure, and no other is needed. Likewise the soil is very rich, 

 as the following figures for the virgin land show : 



lOO'OO 



Containing Nitrogen 



There seems no reason why this land should not make as good 

 tea as any in the district, if the method of plucking were adapted to 

 this purpose, 



The other gardens on these ridges are not very different in 

 character among themselves. The following analyses of the soil as 

 a whole, of the top soil, and of the subsoil from Rangagora, show 

 the general character, but this particular sample is much poorer than 

 the average. 



