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ON HEMP. 



until the plant is ready for cutting, which is from the 20th of Sep- 

 tember to the 10th of October, being sown in all June. The plant 

 is cut when in flower, and bound up into bundles. 



Keerpoy. — The ground being ploughed three different times, 

 the seed is sown, by being scattered over the ground at pleasure, with 

 the hand, in the month of Bysaak (April) ; and in Ausseen (Sep- 

 tember) the Hemp is cut. 



Patna. — The only preparation required for Sunn is to plough 

 the ground four times transversely, after manuring it with wood- 

 ashes and cow-dung, in equal quantities, in the proportion of about 

 eighty pounds to a cottah, or square of about nine feet. The 

 seed is sown in June, soon after the setting in of the rains. The 

 ground must be kept free from weeds. 



It grows six or seven feet high, and is cut down in November, 

 about the time it begins to flower ; and what is reserved for seed is 

 ripe and cut in January or February. 



Chittagong. — The time for sowing the Ghore-Sunn is in the 

 month of Ausseen or September. Previous to its being sown, the 

 ground is well manured with ashes, and ploughed, and then har- 

 rowed for nine or ten days together, until it is made as fine as garden 

 mould. This done, the seed is thrown into the ground, or laid in 

 rows, as fancy may direct, covering it over lightly with earth. 



When the plant appears, which is generally in five or six days, 

 it is frequently hoed, and kept free from weeds ; and when it comes 



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