FIELD PEA RAPE AND MUSTARD SEED GIN'GER. 135 



Remarks on No. 11. This is the same as our 

 field pea in England, indigenous no doubt ; but far 

 inferior to the European kind. On churs (alluvion) 

 sufficiently dry for sowing on the 1st November, 

 after ordinary inundations, and on which there has 

 been an alluvial deposit, with but little sand, I think 

 a profitable cultivation might be made of the kinds 

 used for splitting, or such as are quoted in the 

 English price current as " Boilers ;" a slight plough- 

 ing and broadcast, or even chetowing,(?) would I 

 think answer and if successful, a superior article 

 of food would be obtained for the natives, or for 

 exportation to Calcutta, where they would probably 

 find a good market for supplying the shipping. 



Remarks on No. 13, 14, and 15. Where these 

 crops succeed best, with a little more care and atten- 

 tion, our English mustard seed might answer equal- 

 ly well, and to a limited extent prove a valuable 

 article of export. Rape seed might also be tried. 



Remarks on No. 19- There is but little ginger 

 grown in this district. Rungpore is the favoured 

 locale, I believe. What most materially contributes 

 towards giving the West India ginger a higher 

 value over that of the East, arises from the different 

 preparation it undergoes. In this country, the 



