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condition are due to the activity and enterprise of the late 

 Major Napleton, commander of the hill-rangers. The site 

 is good, consisting of fifteen acres, that were, four years 

 ago, an indigo field, but form now a smiling garden. 

 About fifty men are employed ; and the number of seeds 

 and vegetables annually distributed is very great. Of 

 trees the most conspicuous are the tamarind, Tecoma 

 jasminoides, Erytlirina, Adansonia, Bombax, teak, banyan, 

 peepul, Sissoo, Casuarina, Terminalia, Melia, Bauhinia. 

 Of introduced species English and Chinese flat peaches 

 (pruned to the centre to let the sun in), Mangos of various 

 sorts, Eugenia Jambos, various Anonas, Litchi, Loquat and 

 Longan, oranges, Sapodilla ; apple, pear, both succeeding 

 tolerably ; various Cabool and Persian varieties of fruit- 

 trees ; figs, grapes, guava, apricots, and jujube. The grapes 

 looked extremely well, but they require great skill and care 

 in the management. They form a long covered walk, with 

 a row of plantains on the W. side, to diminish the effects 

 of the hot winds, but even with this screen, the fruit on 

 that side are inferior to that on the opposite trellis. 

 Easterly winds, again, being moist, blight these and other 

 plants, by favouring the abundant increase of insects, and 

 causing the leaves to curl and fall off ; and against this evil 

 there is no remedy. With a clear sky the mischief is not 

 great ; under a cloudy one the prevalence of such winds is 

 fatal to the crop. The white ant sometimes attacks the 

 steins, and is best checked by washing the roots with lime- 

 water, yellow arsenic, or tobacco-water. Numerous Cerealia, 

 and the varieties of cotton, sugar-cane, &c. all thrive ex- 

 tremely well; so do many of our English vegetables. 

 Cabbages, peas, and beans are much injured by the cater- 

 pillars of a Pontia, like our English " White ; " raspberries, 

 currants, and gooseberries will not grow at all. 



