loss in the number of successful trees. Inside the pits 

 snialler ones should be made and filled with salt and ashes 

 mixed with mould, into which the young plants are to be plant- 

 ed, with the nuts just covered with this compost. Some shade 

 ijiust be afforded, and care taken that the plants be not 

 shaken or removed from their first position, and occasionally 

 water should be sprinkled over them. The compost must be 

 used when there is a small proportion of sand in the soil. 

 Ashes will suffice on the seashore, and sand in marshy and 

 loamy soils. The roots of a plant under a year which are 

 broken (but according to many planters all found on the nuts 

 in the nursery) should have their ends cut, as new ones are 

 supposed to be hastened by the process. Turmeric and arrow 

 root are often planted in the same pits with the cocoanut, as 

 they are supposed in some way to repel white ants, rats, etc. 

 After the plants are in, little sheds with twigs and branches 

 should be made to protect them for the next six months from 

 too great heat of noonday sun, this prevents withering of the 

 leaves or any check ;to growth of the roots. 



On dry soils the plants ought to be watered twice a day 

 for the first month, once a day will suffice for the next 

 five, or until the monsoon shov/ers come on, and once every two 

 or three days during the dry seasons of three following years, 

 according to circumstances. On hillsides it is usual to 

 water during the hot weather, even till the first buds appear ; 

 and on sandy plains on the seacoast, when the trees are in 



