t, or in the event of drought, the young plant is 



g daily, and watering i- continued as required until 

 ; hoighl of IS inches, or, roughly speaking, during 

 ar. The young plants are not shaded in any woy 



were destroyed, that the average age of 



put down as below 20 years, and the age 01 the trees in the Nutans 

 '-.. a from 18 year- to 17 years. 

 The appearance oi tlie (dove plantation- i-, a- a rule, im.-t healthy an.; 

 luxuriant, the height of the more matured rne- averaging fully 40 U>r-\ 

 and the brandies of the two row- often completely -hading the ground. 

 Clove trees generally have forked -tern-, and often a- many a- three and 



Diseases and Enemies. 



So far as I have been able to ascertain, and I haw? made careful 



inquiries on this subject, the clove tree is not subject to any fungoid 



disease, and the per-centage of dead, dying, and unhealthy trees 



noticed by me was very small, and the cause generally was either a 



The clove tree, however, suffers from the attacks of two enemies: — 



one, a caterpillar, wdiieh attacks the foliage in the dry weather and often 

 denudes the tree of its leaves, but the tree recovers ar once as soon as 

 the rains set in. The other is the white ant, which occasionally attacl- - 



Time of Bearing. 

 Clove trees begin to yield, in good situation-, o years from planting ;. 

 n inferior Foil, 6 years to (>.\ year- from planting. 



seer of Indo, informed me that he 



bs.).* Also the head overseer of the 



ed me with the following averages :— 

 1,000 trees, 50 fra.silas. 



The unexpanded buds on the trees are at first a pinkish Yellow, 

 becoming a deeper red as they mature. The stalks and bud- are 

 leathered at the same time, and thrown on to grass mat- spread on tin- 

 ground; the picking of the higher branches is done by means of 

 triangular bamboo ladders. 



