1919.] The Sixth Indian Science Congress. ci 
sections that hg having deep and fertile soil and sufficiently high not 
submerged by high tides, but not too high to preclude cheap water 
und. 
rops that are seen successfully cultivated under such conditions 
are brinjal (Solamem melon yt an nM ie (Capsicum frules cens), 
brinjals being the commoner 0 , chillies being supposed to 
less resistant to salt or brin i Uablor (Ricinus communis), sw: emi 
grown e borders spa as a sprinkling in the main crops 0 inje 
and. chilli N te varieties speciall apted for saline eae 
r sual sweet water varieties being cultivated under 
salt-water condit ing is done in the le of October, and the 
nc tivation is as gpd similiar to t eet water ; 
ure is t nly manure given, if at all, and where avail- 
abl oor de same plac ae not carry the cultivation for more than 
e to three years continuously according to the nearer ‘ekg r farther situa- 
sed to 
= from the sea, as the soil is sup t ‘* salt sic 
' Saline water of the pe is the only water given ei m the time ot 
planting to the end of February, at s r intervals of a day or so for 
the first month and thereafter at longer intervals of four to eight day 
according to the retentive nature of th After February the water is 
recognized to get too saline to b watering is don t the 
nts have to depend on the residual soil moisture on which they survive 
and continue to bear till the end of the hot season. Sometimes distinct 
incrustation It is visible on the surface of the field later in th 
eason sually at high tide that watering is done as the rise of the 
water level reduces the lift or lead; no di nce is, however, rec 
tide a igh tide waters; the full moon or the new moon 
tween lo u ] 
saree together with — on the two or three succeedirg days, are 
id h i ter. 
h 
the pickings from Sa ee ceerania are small with small-sized fruit having 
often an acrid t : 
has been aes that the ee of Phare certain a 
with saline water is yet unknown on the creek sides i the Thana and 
he r 
larly ces arr but where the practice described in the paper is no 
know a" benefit by the presentation of the results of the study made 
in 
It would also be worth while to pec — sbi conatelly those 
which, parading to present kno wledge, recogniz we 
resistant, under the ee herein de rs d with a "view sr ea: 
if there cn any new and more remunerative crops tha n be ated . 
those mentioned in the paper. This would form one of "the fos of future 
study ‘of t the subject. 
Rate of nitrification of different green manures.—By N. V. 
JOSHI 
It is shown that the rate of nitrification for different green m 
is different, varying with the amount o woody tissue and pith ae so 
i that the 
The nitrogen content of the above groun d portion of leguminous plants 
is about three-fourths to nine-tenths of the wey nitrogen of the whole 
