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young* Betel plants must then have some dung, and for four months 
more must be watered with the pot once in three days. After- July s, &c. 
wards, so long as the garden lasts, all the channels must once in 
four days be filled with water. This keeps the ground sufficiently 
moist, and water applied immediately to the plants is injurious. The 
garden ought to be kept clean from weeds by the hand, and once a 
year, in December, must have dung. When the plants are a year 
and a half old, they are removed from the sticks ; two cubits of 
each, next the root, is buried in the earth; and the remainder, con- 
ducted close to the root of one of the young trees, is allowed to 
support itself on the stem. At the end of two years two cubits 
more of each plant are buried in the ground ; and ever afterwards, 
this is once a year repeated. At the beginning of the fourth year 
the cultivator begins to gather the leaves for sale, and for six or 
seven years continues to obtain a constant supply. Afterwards the 
plants die, and a new garden must be formed in some other place. 
In order to give additional coolness to the garden, at its first for- 
mation a plantain tree is put at each corner of every bed, and by 
means of suckers soon forms a cluster. So long as the garden lasts 
these clusters are preserved. At all times the gardens are very cool 
and pleasant; but they are not neatly kept; and in the space be- 
tween the hedge and the beds, a great variety of bushes and weeds 
are allowed to grow. 
In this part of the country there are no palm gardens of any 
consequence. 
In what formed the Pergunnah of Colar, and which includes Ban- Kitchen 
galore , probably from having been longer under a Mussulman go- sarclens 
vernment, the Tarkari, or kitchen gardens, seem to be more exten- 
sive, and better cultivated, than those near Seringapatam, They 
are chiefly cultivated by the cast called Vana Palli , as I have lately 
mentioned, a people who originally came from the lower Car- 
natic* At Colar the gardens are in very bad order ; but at some 
