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be likely to evaporate, and thus the seed would have been rendered 
Sterile. Even the seed raised at Chakva requires the greatest care and 
attention, as excessive dryness deprives it of the oil, and too much damp 
caus2s it to rot. 
Eventually, — he succeeded in obtaining a few plants which 
arrived at Batoum the month of July. 1885, together with some 
seedlings. ‘The aeu dL i of both jelt, much to be desired, as they s 
received but little care and water duriug their transit, and were to a 
extent damaged by the Customs eibi who used quicklime for Who 
purpose of disinfecting them against the importation of Phylloxera. 
They were, subsequently, transported to git: and with as little delay 
as possible planted on his property. At first they grew badly, and all 
the shrubs dried up, but some of the E es took, and from these he 
was able to develop his plantation 
The land chosen for the Sittin was a red ciayey soil, dressed with 
a thin coat of manure b = thoroughly rotted leaves and branches, 
&c. — -had fallen from the. After clearing away the manure the 
land dug hem = a depth ol of pom 21 inches and the top soil was 
Worked" to the b 
~~ The séeds man in bin course of a year, and are gathered in the month 
of ber, at which time the plant also flowers. The seeds, after being 
solution for some eir B A then put Wk into the earthenware 
vessels, after being mixed with damp earth. In this earth the seeds 
be 
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egin to shoot up, Rt pes are then transplanted into the nursery beds, 
the soil of which is the same as that of the plantation, but which has 
a certain proportion of sea sand admixed for the purpose of rendering 
it more friable. The seeds are sown at a distance of 34 inches apart at 
a depth of 12 inches. As soon as the young shoots make their appear- 
ance above e ground it is necessary to cover them over with mas in order 
to dini them from the excessive heat of the sun; but this protection 
‘should be removed in rainy weather sd at night. In dry weather the 
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to contend, and they are most difficult to deal with, although it would 
appear he has found means whereby the ravages caused by mole crickets 
may be minimised. The methods which he adopts to attain this end 
are the annual removal of the nursery beds to fresh ground, and the 
burying in the nursery beds, in a line with the burrows of the crickets, 
-of grains of Indian corn boiled in a aures of arsenic, or, what is still 
better, a solution of corrosive sublima 
The ghe ee pedea of the tea plant W. means of cuttings should be 
avoided, as a large proportion ob the cuttings do not take, but the euer 
objection i * that tt those do only produce very weak plants. 44 
Now that he has almost unlimited supply of seedlings, Mr. 
Solo” Aen testisflantinig only the stronger ones into the planta- 
tion. e seedlings remain in the beds a Whole year, and are then 
‘Planted out 4 feet apart from each other. 
~The onl only ‘attention Tn the plantation Das i is that it should be 
freed. from weeds twice a year. For the first year the young plants 
should be pro from ther Back he iu iM the Med of irees. 
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