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 tender. In temperate climates Caricas have "been foimd to be 

 good decorative plants, for "both conservatory and summer bedd- 

 ing, the deeply cut palmate leaves forming a striking con- 

 trast to ordinary vegetation. In bedding out, select open, 

 sunny exposure, with perfect drainage, and make the soil rich 

 and friable. Constant cultivation with a light hoe will 

 cause a luxiiriant growth under these conditions, and the 

 planter will be amply repaid for his trouble by beautiful 

 showy specimens as unique and tropical appearing as palms. 



As a heav;'- yielding fruit and vegetable crop the papaya 

 has hardly its equal and it deserves to be cultivated as a 

 regular crop. The fruit grows plentifully during the monsoon, 

 but it goes on yielding all the year round. 



Apart from the great value of the papaya as a drou^t 

 resisting crop yielding a highly nourishing vegetable (when 

 the fruit are green) and ripe fruit, the crop is of great value 

 as the source of Papain or Papayotin, The juice of the 

 fruit or the macerated leaves, if rubbed on animal flesh makes 

 it Yery tender. It is for this softening property that the 

 milk of the fruit is gene^rally added to the meat while cook- 

 ing it • 



Pomegranate, Punica (rranatiun (Linn.) 

 Origin 



Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan, cultivated for more 

 than four thousand years. 



