INTENSIVE CULTIVATION IN MADEIRA. 



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Tools. 



The tools (fig. 46) with which all this hand-cultivation is accom- 

 plished are few and simple. The most important one is the enxada 

 (pronounced " ensharcler "), which in slightly differing forms is used for 

 grubbing up trees and bushes and removing stones on the mountain 

 sides, or for picking up the roads prior to laying down the hard granite 

 paving-cobbles; or the form figured, the usual garden form, the heavy, 

 long, naiTOw wedged-shaped hoe witli which the straightest trenches for 

 crops are drawn out, and the thick tangle of weeds, which have always 

 accumulated during the growth and harvesting of a crop, is torn and 

 dragged up by the roots : indeed, a spade is but rarely used. I have 

 found this tool of great utility in my own garden. For small weeding 

 work and all cutting off of herbarge a very small billhook is used, or 

 a much curved knife, a pudao; with lliis the maize and sugar cane 

 leaves are stripped off, and I find it of constant use in the herbaceous 

 border. For pnming purposes secateurs are in universal use. 



Table of Prices (Approximate). 



Veectables. 



Potatos 



Sweet potatos 

 Colocasia 



Gourds 



Chuchu 

 Cabbage 

 Cauliflower . 

 French beans 

 Broad beans 

 Green peas 

 Onions 

 Turnips 

 Carrots 

 Beetroot 

 Eadishes 

 Tomatos 

 Egg-plants 

 Spinach 

 Lettuces 



Dried peas . 

 White beans 

 Haricot ,, 

 Butter „ 

 Cicer pea 

 Lentils 



Kortali^as. 



Semilhas'^^^-^, 

 ' small 



Batatas 

 Inhame . 

 Abobora preta . 

 Abobora de machado 

 Boganga branca 

 Pepinella . 

 Couve 

 Couve flor 

 Feijao 

 Favas 



Ervilhas verdes 

 Cebolas . 

 Nabos 

 Cenouras . 

 Beterrubas 

 Rabanos . 

 Tomate . 

 Pere melange 

 Espinafres 

 Alfacas 



Ervilhas seccas 



Feijao branco . 

 ,, carrapato 

 ,, manteiga 



Grao de bico 



Lentilhas . 



Price. 



(Kilogrammes converteJ to lbs. 

 nvoirdupois and reis to pence.) 



2^d. lb. 

 2d. „ 

 Ud. „ 

 Id. „ 



Id. — 2d. each 

 Qd. 



2d.— id. „ 



Id. 



2d. 



6d. per lb. 

 Hd. „ 

 Sd. 

 2d. 



M. I do7,. 

 2d. lb. 

 Qd. lb. 

 Sd. a bunch 

 lid. lb. 

 2d. each 

 Id. lb. 

 Id. each 



2|fZ, 



'dd. 



Sd. 



2ld. 



Sd. 



lb. 



Sugar cane 



Canna d'Assucar 



Sd. per stick 



