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and orange, lime, Mango, or Jack trees. The eight hundred Areca CHAPTER 
palms, at five cubits distance, would only occupy about an acre ; 
but a considerable space is taken up by a walk, and by the rows of Jul y' 2o » 
fruit trees between them and the hedge. In nine years, from the 
first formation of the garden, the betel-vines, and most of the trees 
that supported them, are removed. A few of the Agashay , and all 
the plantains, are allowed to remain. In the twelfth year the Areca 
palms begin to produce fruit. The remaining Agashay (AEschyno- 
mone grandiflora ) trees, and one half of the plantains, are then re- 
moved. After this, the garden requires water only once in the 
eight days, when there is no rain ; and the whole is dug over, and 
formed like rice-ground into proper squares, and channels for dis- 
tributing the water. One year it is manured with dung ; in the 
second with the leaves of the Hoingay, and Coghi (Robinia mitis, 
and Galegtt purpurea), and in the third year with mud from the 
bottom of a reservoir. So long as the garden lasts, this succession 
of manures should, if possible, be continued ; and when the palms 
attain their full growth, which is in the 14th year of the garden, 
the plantain trees are entirely removed. For 30 years, from its ar- 
riving at maturity, the palm continues vigorous, and for 14 years 
more gradually declines ; during which time a new garden ought 
to be formed, and then the old trees should be cut, and the ground 
cultivated with grain, till the -second formed garden again begins to 
decay. In place of those that die, some poor farmers plant new trees, 
and thus constantly keep up a garden on the same spot ; but here 
this is looked upon as a bad practice. The crop season lasts two 
months before, and one after, the autumnal equinox. The nut, 
after being peeled, is cut into seven or eight pieces, and put up in 
a heap. Then take one Seer of the nut, one Seer of Cut, or Terra 
Japonica, and a hundred leaves of the Piper Betle, beat them toge- 
ther repeatedly with some water, and strain the juice thus obtained 
into a pot. Take 20 Seers of the bark of the Can Jali ( Mimosa in - 
Sea E. M.), and boil it during a whole night in a large pot, with 
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