SINGAPORE. 



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a 5oil pretty well fitted for most intertropical pro- 

 ductions. 



Singapore does not as yet contain many agricultu- 

 rists. Trade is here the main Object still of Eu- 

 ropean and native settlers. From Papers, a series of 

 which appeared lately in the Singapore Free Press, 

 the public attention appears to be gradually turn- 

 ing to agricultural subjects. 



The writer describes a bot wiod which, conjoined 

 perhaps with unfavorable soil, has prevented the 

 Clove tree succeeding. The Nutmeg is said to thrive 

 better. But this tree, more perhaps than any other, 

 requires a humid atmosphere, and speculators will 

 require to be extremely cautious in chusing the site 

 of a plantation. The soil is undoubtedly better 

 adapted to the clove than the nutmeg — were this ad- 

 vantage not counteracted by the wind alluded to. 



