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Palmyra molasses will be candied (i.e., ciystallized) : these crystals, 

 if taken into the mouth, will suppress asthma and phlegm. 



If the boiled toddy in the above process be still boiled until it 

 sticks a little to the bottom of the vessel and bubbles are formed, 

 you can have Palmyra sugar. 



If toddy be so boiled that, if it be taken in a ladle, it will not 

 be drawn into threads, but will break, take it out of the fire, put 

 a little quantity of rice flour and mix it well with the molasses and 

 pour the molasses in pots and little Ola cases ; jou will have 

 Palmyra jaggery. 



If, in the above said stage of consistency, powdered cummin, 

 pepper and sesamum seeds all well roasted be put in the molasses, 

 and if you steadily continue mixing and agitating the molasses, 

 you will have a powder, which may be used to assuage thirst ; such 

 a powder, if it be of the toddy of a male Palmyra tree, maj- be 

 taken as medical accompaniments ; may also be given to motherless 

 babes. If the proper consistency be not pitched, it will get as 

 hard as sugar-candy. 



When toddy ceases to be drawn by the close of March, there 

 will be fruits during the following five months, and during the 

 remaining months there will be dried Palmyra pulp. So, the 

 produce of the Palmyra tree is had in every month of the 3'ear. 

 The Palmyra-tree is able to bestow bountifully, and one may eat of 

 its produce in the three seasons of meal everj^ day. The mind will 

 ever love it more than any other thing. If a person onl}^ Avith 

 gratitude to the tree eat of its produce twice or more a daj^, he 

 will have all the benefits of those that spend the day in fasting 

 and devotion and eat only once a day. 



Old Palmyra branches are cut out of the tree every other year, 

 left to dry in the sun a daj^, made flat b}^ pressing them 

 in a certain manner, and then used for covering and fencing. 

 When the Olas get mouldered, the}^ are used for manuring rice- 

 fields, etc. The inner fibrous bark of the Palmyra stem is used in 

 making cords and ropes, etc., but the outer bark is not so strong 

 as the inner. The Palmyra stem is used in making cots, hedging, 

 and covering an ola book. The white tender Palmyra leaves are 

 used for making baskets of several kinds, as for storing paddy, 



