S50 CONCEKNISa THE TEAK TKEE. 



from the tree in October. If sown about this period, or rather 

 before than after, in well-shaded beds, about an inch asunder, 

 and covered wiih about a quarter of an inch of earth, with a 

 little rotton straw or grass spread over the earth, to keep the 

 beds in an uniform state of humidity, by gentle waterings, 

 shor.Id the weather prove dry ; most of the nuts will be found 

 to produce from one to four plants, in from four to eight weeks. 

 However, it sometimes happens, that many will remain in the 

 ground until the comm.encement of the second rains, nay even 

 of the third ; hov/ever, this is rare, yet it will be adviseable to 

 sow the seed on a spot that can be spared, at least until the 

 rains of the second season are well advanced ; by not attending 

 to this circumstance, many have thought the seed bad, conse- 

 quently caused the ground to be dug up for other purposes. 



Appearance of i^j^g plants, when they first make their apuearance. are very 



the plains. ,, ' , ^ , , , / ' . ^ ' . . 



small, scarce so large as a cabbage plant when it hrst spruigs 



Time of trans- from the earth 3 their growth is, however, rapid. When they 

 p. an icg. ^j.g about one or two inches high, they ought to be transplanted 



into other beds, at the distance of about six inches from each 

 other, there to remain until the beginning of the next year's 

 rains, when iheyare to be planted out to where they are to re- 

 main, cr they may, when from two to four inches high, be 

 planted out at once to where they are to grow ; and it is not 

 perfectly clear but by so doing they succeed better ; as in tak- 

 ing up plants of any considerable size, say from one to two or 

 more feet high, the roots are very apt to be injured, particu- 

 larly the sap root^ which retards their growth much, nay often 

 kills (hem. 

 Considerations About Calcutta they thrive luxuriantly in most places where 

 re a ing to tlie ^j^ j^^^^ ^^^^^ tried, and any tolerable degree of care taken of 

 proper soil. ' ^ y ia 



them 5 so that the only observations which seem necessary to 



be made on this head, are to avoid sowing the seed, or planting 

 i-n such places as are low, or subject to be inundated j to keep 

 them clear from weeds, and sparingly watered during dry wea- 

 ther, for the first year only. In a good soil, not much overrun 

 with that coarse, white'iiowered grass, called by the natives 

 Woola (Saccharum,) they will scarce require any care what- 

 ever after the first six months, from the time of being planted 

 cut where they are to stand. They will then be about eighteen 

 months old, supposing them to have been transplanted twice j 



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