Widens. — TH& xi?T»Efh 'A3 



ly adopted ; but racking irt the shape of agricultural 

 science lias been brought to I mar on thin point ; what- 

 ever the nature of tlte soil may have lieen, the ipiaulily 

 of manure applied lias* been in variably the same, By 

 lli* judicious a] ►plication of manure, a plantation, bid 

 out on second-rate soil, rna>\ for many years, be kepi on a 

 level Wkh one oil I be best description of land, but the 

 latter ouitht not to re«piire the stimulus wliich is identi- 

 fied, apparently, with the prosperity of the former. 



The trees on Amhnyun and Bam in stand, or stood* 

 partly on rich black or red mould, and partly on a light 

 soil, bothbeinir there deemed equalh n.n^euial to their 

 growth. The soil throughout die Beneoolen planta- 

 tions, generally, is, a red brieklike m>nid uith atoucj 

 fragments interspersed — nought hut peraeveru^ in- 

 dustry could have rendered this s »d so produetiu as 

 i! ha* proved to he. The mould seems to lie a de- 

 composing laterifeand ton strongly impregnated with 

 iron t > be very fertile. A somewhat similar soil is 

 t Miuil in the neighbourhood of Malacca* at Singapore, 

 and in Province WellcsJey, In the latter district it 

 merges into a steatitie or argitaceous earth wliich is 

 her'ily ~*f*rolitic. 



Dr. Lumsdaine was of opinion that alluvial lauds 

 t .;r entitled ht pretereuee from their acknowledged 

 fertility and capability of retain ; ng moisture. In lSt>4, 

 the whole face of the island of Bamla— as described by 

 the agent* of the Bengal government, who superintend - 

 ed there the collection of plants from the Moluccas for 

 Penauu — resembled tin: then rude state of the latter Is- 

 land, excepting tiiat the hm thick jungles, where the 

 nutmeg trees were planted, had b en eieared ;nvay. 



The geutleimuialM>ve alluded to, not ices a trer uhiHi 

 grew in an alluvia! soil at Moeo Moeo in Beneoolen, 

 iuitl which at the age of 23 years, measured 38 inches 



in circumference. — There is now one at Dettesham 



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