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work of our farmers is laborious, tedious, expensive, and often 
unsuccessful. As a modern writer remarks, “farming in Malta and 
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other will be brought under cultivation, that the primitive rti lan 
of agriculture still in use will be superseded by proper machinery 
suitable for our soil,and that, as books for our farmers are useless, 
lectures on hortieulture will be. given them in each casal, with cim view 
of teaching them how to improve their old inethods of cultivation and 
lead them to the discovery of better modes. It would be then oos 
to introduce and largely cultivate many exotic trees and some sah bearing 
excellent fruit both for the home market and for exportation ; and to 
improve at the same time the products of those species which are now 
more or less successfully grown. 
Wild Fruits. 
nder this term we include the Rubus discolor, or common bramble 
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children and birds. It is known under the name of zgharun. The 
Mespilus germanica, which used to abound in several ravines, especially 
in the neighbourhood of the Boschetto, belongs now only to the flora 
of Gozo, where it grows seemingly wild among bushes. It is called 
pomm el lip. The fruit of the wild variety is middle-sized and 
incipient t decay. Punica Granatum and Ceratonia itar belong to 
the Flora of these islands, so does Olea europea 
k that i Caution should be more extensively eultivated for 
the sake of the abundant Carobs it produces, ealled Aarrub, which are 
eaten To the poorer classes, PE P times s. rani and form a 
food 
for this purpose The Mal Carobs are di Bun 2s. Gd. to to 5s. po 
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