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Tliu cocou-nuts intcudcd for planting arc fully 

 ripe, and being taken down, are laid aside for 

 saremi are #i^tt takm^ and b^ing 



partially covered witli cartli,, tlicy arc left 

 for two or three months ; in \vhieli time a wliite, 

 spongy, sweet substance forms in the interior of 

 tbe nitt ; after wliich the white shoot (the Tndi- 

 TOftt of tlic future tree) emei^es from one of tW 

 li<»le>, (which ;ire seen at one end of tlie 

 nut, wisely in'ovhhd In luitnre for tliis purpose,) 

 ])icrces the nnt, and to the height of" a few 



inches, the ibliaccous rudiments are distinctly 

 to be perceived ;* th^ re<!&$1^ emerge from 

 other two oiifie®^ m a direction opposite to the 

 shoot, and penetrate the ground. In the course 

 of four or five months, the plant will Imve at- 

 tained the height of sixteen or eighteen inclies, 



and iwm ^mm mi Ita^ four feliaceTO 

 hrgrnsb^ The ^ixgstl^^ pl^nt thdr tope^i 



Its alkaline aslies; and lMi A ^mitit^Aj^ll^ In planting a 

 t o( oa-mu. to put a little 6alt intso the ^k,"^JOtit^*s Ceyhn, 

 4 to. p. i335. 



• The m^m of gf tiie com^tj% wh&k m 

 the act of gem^atitigj the same appellation as the hrain 

 — « Uta.' 



i!si: tliis word in (me of tlic missiotuiry Icttt'is sent to Eng- 

 land; 'H was tncBtioned that they prc:u lHHl Ui the natives in 

 fttpest^e&coSk'mi tr^! ^fi, wIigh it appeared in one of the 



