en AFTER 
VI. 
J.aly 25, &c. 
Caftaijt or 
C®ccr arie~ 
iinum » 
Mcwtea\ and. 
Jin-gay* 
Wheat called 
Hoi ay, , 
m A JOVE'S 2 Y FROM MADRAS THROUGH 
>y yp'g-gy^ fuff-: Awf h'PfofogegF.pnm 
must be- formed in the same mariner. It gets po manure nor weed- 
ing, and requires onljf. three waterings, on ; the 40th, 6'0tn, and :80th 
clays. It is much subject to disease, and' not above one crop m 
four 1 s good. After reaping the wheat, trie field, in order to expose, 
the soil to the rang must he iio mediately plougiied. 
Another considerable crop, raisecl on. tins ground, • T ( .Mfl&y mixed, 
will C<Kmr:iha ov CaHhamm ii "donas. No attention is paid to the 
adterontkm of this cron with ;;fcc wheat. Some bmes* they are every 
R ear changed , and .again, tor two or three stmeejsstye year&,- the 
same crop is taken from the same grqmuL J.he Cap lay is cultivated 
enaotlw in t he same maimer as die wheat, only it requires no water, 
J ' -- 
and the dud is not divided in it: plots. Throughout thp field, at 
f'.F distance of fifone a: bite, the Cossumba seed is planted in drills* 
The dew resting on the ’ wvw tv the Car hy h said to be acid, and 
w esteemed a powerful medicine, especially for restoring the appe- 
tite, It is c fleeted by spreading' over “tie held at night a muslin 
cloth, from.' which in he tnonung thevdew is wrung. 
In some parts of this grown f which it, is not necessary to choose 
very - rich, are sown Alttitcct ami. JtTigoy * ’ he f.onue>. is tne T> igo- 
m:lla Fanukgrdcim, and the latter is an mnbeUUerous plant, which 
I did not. see. 
The A,entca cultivated in gardens is always used green, when 
mcerded for seed or for dim 'aim it is always raised in this man- 
r 3 .er : plough twice at the same season as to* Lartay , divide the 
field Into puns like a kit hen garden ; sow the seed, co* er it witn 
the hand, -and., accord mg to. the nature of tne soi VAvau-n uiice »u from 
■ ten tc fifteen days, -file npe seed of this .plant seds.r eiy: high, and 
is reckoned the most delicate kind of puke. The young leaves are 
used as greens, and the unripe legumes are pvt into Curries . 
The Jlricxv is cultivated exactly m the same maimer.. Some- 
times it it sewn on the ground that is usmfly employed for trans- 
planted Ragy : but iseu it 'oes not thrive so well, 
. When reservoirs dry up before the end of lUgha, or middle of 
