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~ The inquiry into the fruits of Malta was brani by the Govern- 
ment to a special board. For this boar e following exhaustive 
Report has been prepared by Professor Gavino Gulia, M.D., Director 
of the Botanie Gardens: 
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caused by these enemies of Christendom: nit civilization. -Unluckily, 
i heat, and i i 
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the cause of their putting aside the planting of trees. "The extensive 
Lec were no more cared for, the trees Ken felled for eaten to 
make room for other puse produ ucts,—a fact which is greatly to 
be fégiéttod, for, owing to its excellent Hits a fertile soil, trees 
and shrubs of different kind grow in Malta wonderfully and pr roduce 
fruit, which being of an exquisite sort, would well repay exportation. 
It is desirable “that the Agrarian Society of Malta and the wealthy 
The Wing i felt n ves kd water supply in ‘rural districts e lately, 
fortunately, been ect of careful research. : The water supply of 
these islands is errans d from rainfall, part of which is directly absorbed 
by plants, t is vaporated, part runs into the sea through 
numerous ravines, and part sin ks uei the soil and quie natural 
therefore be Moraria to eem, by law, aodiorde to aie i a tan nk i in each 
field, the dimensions of which to be proportionate to the extension of 
the field itself. With the view ds Missi e ds griculture, prizes for 
the best plantations should be awarded to farm ian T dnd whilst an 
way of obtaining young trees is "afforded imos ine expense of obtaining 
water ve irrigation should be as moderate a 
art of manuring is very little eadeni by o our farmer, who 
chiefly uses rotten animal and vegetable manures after having exhaled 
their best constituent parts w hilst lying in a corner of his field. He 
knows nothing of liquid manure, “ which ” as Professor Lindley remarks, 
works the winder; and operates like eg overflow of the Nile or the 
* Indus. The large DNE of nightsoil, which is now lost in the 
the old farming customs of Malta. Owing to "de of sound 
knowledge of horticulture and of proper agricultural falenehto, the 
