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Supplement to the "Tropical AgncuUurisV [Sept. 1, 1903. 
80HO01, Qabdens Judged fob Pbizbs, 
June, 1903. 
Vtrbatim Notes. 
Handapan&oda Vebnacualb Boys' School. 
7 miles from Padukka Eailway Station, with 
very bad road. 
Area cultivated, about one acre- 
Average daily attendance of boys, about 100. 
Soil fairly good; well-water neir but not 
plentiful. 
Contents of Garden. 
A, — Vegetables or Economic Plants. 
Pines (Kew, Mauritius, 
and native) 
Brinjals (good) 
Chillies 
Bandakkai 
Tams (Dioscorea) ^ 
Arrowroot 
Butsarana (Canna edalis) 
Ginger (good plot) 
Velvet-bean 
Me-karal (good) 
Miize 
lunala 
Sweet potato (3 kinds) 
Kai rawila 
Betel 
Kaha (Curcuma) 
Sugarcane 
Buckwheat (few starv- 
ing plants) 
Hevea, — There are two trees which are planted 
too closely together and in an unsuitable place. 
Mulberry. — There is an open hedge about 20 
yards long. 
B, — Ornamental Plants. 
Cannas (good) 
White Caladiums 
Tuberose (good) 
Wrightia zeylanica 
Tabernamontana 
Bouganvillea glabra 
Clitoria 
Eoses (few) 
Altornanthera (2 kinds) 
C— Fruit or Economic Trees. 
PJantains (3 or 4 kinds, 
not in fruit) 
Papaw (1 tree, not in 
- fruit) 
Oranges (several young 
trees not in bearing) 
Breadfruit (1 tree) 
Pomegranate (young 
plant) 
The general condition of garden indicates per- 
severance and skill; and notwithstanding the 
remote locality, there is a fairly good variety of 
plants, which are methodically arranged and well 
grown. 
KUMBALOLUWA VERNACULAR BOYS' SCHOOL. 
3 miles from Veyangoda Railway Station. 
Area cultivated, about 1| acre. 
Average daily attendance of boys, about 150. 
Soil very poor ; shade and water scanty. 
Contents of Garden, 
Betel r2 kinds Green and 
Variegated leaved) 
Ginger 
Arrowroot 
Pines (Mauritius and 
Native) 
Chillies 
Kttukun (Ipomea 
aquaticu) 
Snake Gourd 
lauala 
Radishes (said 
from India ; 
only used. 
Bandakkai 
Ground-nut 
Cabbages (fair) 
Me-karal 
Gourds (good) 
Bouchi (good) 
Sweet-potato 
to be 
leaves 
Cannas 
Alternanthera (2 kinds) 
Caladiums (several 
varieties) 
Palms (a few) in pots 
C — None noted. 
Mulberry.— 9 shrubs in a bed (which ought to 
be removed) and fifty yards of hedge. 
The work is carried on systeinaticallj-, and the 
general laying out of the garden indicates more 
advanced ideas than elsewhere noticed. 
The teacher gives object-lessens in physicr-1 
geography by representing valleys, mountains, 
&c, with groves and hollows in the earth, and 
water poured over this indicates rivers, &c. 
KiBIWATUDUA VhrNACULAB Bots' SgHOOL. 
10 miles from Lunawa Station ; 5 miles frim 
Eesbowa by short-cut road, tha latter only a rjugh 
track. 
Area cultivated, about ^ acre. 
Average daily attendance of boys, about 80. 
Soil for the mjst pirt gravelly and poor. 
Contents of Garden. 
Betel 
Ginger 
Arrowroot 
Sugar-cane 
Butsarana 
Manyokka 
Pines (3 kinds) 
Kankun 
Bandakkai 
Yams (Dioscorea) 
Shallots 
Garlic 
Habarala 
Cheena-ala 
Tampala 
B. 
White Caladiums 
AUamanda Hendersoni 
Acalypha torta 
Heliconia rubra 
Crotous (mainly of one 
variety) 
Balsams 
Karabu-mal (Melam- 
podium) 
Wrightia zeylanica 
Hibiscus schizopetalus 
Ligerstroemia tudica 
Honeysuckle 
Cobba-neela (B luhiuia 
acuminata) 
G, 
Plantains (4 varieties, 
none in fruit) 
Papaw (one small plant) 
Duriaii (one plant, Aoin^ 
well) 
Oranges (a row of 8 
trees, doing well) 
Arnatto (one shrub) 
Camphor (one young 
plant 
A promising garden with a nice variety of 
plants. 
MiRiaAMA OB MaaURUGAMPOLA VfiBNA- 
cuLAR Boys' School. 
Close to Mirigama Riilway Station. 
Area cultivated, about f of an acre. 
Average daily attendance of boys, about 130. 
Soil fairly good ; shade good ; well-water con- 
venient, 
