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clean, and well burnt from weeds and trees, make a hole where you intend 

 to plant your tree about a foot diameter, end fix inches deep : fplit In the 

 middle a Waha leaf, and place it within the circumference of the hole, 

 which will then be about eight inches above the ground, and reach to the 

 bottom of the hole ; into that leaf rub the mould very light, till it is filled 

 as high as the furface of the ground ; then take your nuts and plant three 

 triangularly, by making a hole for each nut with your finger about two' 

 inches deep, and put in the nut which juft began to fprout, with the end 

 downward, fhake in a little more mould juft to cover it, then fold 

 over the leaf clofe, and lay a fmall flone on the top to prevent its opening j 

 in about eight or ten days the nut will rife out of the mouid ; then open the 

 leaf, and place fome other leaves round it, to fcreen it from the fun : leaves 

 of the palm kind are generally ufed, as you mviy fix chem beft in the ground; 

 2nd thefe mufl be renewed as often as they decay, for about fix months, at 

 which time take a bough of the madre of Cacao, and plant it about fouth 

 fquth weft of the tree, which will grow up with the cacao j from this tinie 

 be not too fond of cleaning the herbage or grafs in the cacao walk, becaufe 

 that keeps the ground cool, but cut dow n every thing of the vine kind, or any 

 other weeds that grow high : if all the nuts you plant in one hole grow up, 

 when they are about eighteen inches high, tranfplant one of them, or draw 

 it and throw it away ; the other two, if they fpread different ways, may 

 grow ; but if you find them intermingle, it is better to cut down one of 

 them ; the fifth year they will begin to bear ; but it is beft to pluck off the 

 fruit, except a few cods, and at the next crop alfo fufrer not too many ; the 

 eighth year let all come to perfedlion that will. A black mould and level bot- 

 tom, well fcreened from the winds, efpecially the northern ones, is beft. The 

 tree will generally bear two crops a year ; when you gather it, or pluck the 

 cods oft, let them lie about three days, then take out the nuts, and put 

 them upon mats or fkins to dry in the hot fun ; it is beft not to wafti off the 

 pulp, as they will then keep the longer. A tree will remain good about 

 twenty years, and produce the value of from three or five pieces of eight 

 annually to eigh.een. The Spam'ards find from experience, that trees tranf- 

 planted neither bear fo foon nor fo well as thofe never moved ; about fix 

 yards from tree to tree is a good diftance to plant them. If the cacao walk 



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