long — but tlie fruit possesses the fullest and most pungent 
aroma of all commercial peppers. 
Under cultivation the gardens were planted closely to 
compensate for the smaller crop per acre as compared with 
the larger fruited varieties (I believe about 7x0 and 
on the older allotments, dadap (Erythrina imhrosa) had 
been planted for shade but as a result of continuous pruning 
the trees had become gnarled and stunted. Except that 
this tree grows quickly it is not a good shade tree, as a 
matter of fact it is much too large and the free develop- 
ment of roots is too exhausting on the soil for the successful 
growth of the vines. On all the younger allotments dadap 
had been superseded by nmnkudu ( Morinda tinctoria) a 
much smaller tree and affording better shade at a minimum 
expansion of root development. Between alternate rows ot 
munkudu a row of posts had been rum and m the rows— 
whether trees or posts— an additional posts or posts had 
been added wherever a good offshoot could be obtained, so 
that while the shade was efficient the allotment was cropped 
as closelv as feasible. The munkudu trees were topped 
above the second whorl of branches and as a consequence 
the branches spread in a moderate horizontal direction. 
(Munkudu is the most ideal shade tree I have yet seen for • 
pepper.) . 
At the time of my visit the shade trees were being 
pruned; where necessary the spreading branches were 
shortened and all superfluous growths— what a cottee 
planter would call gourmandizers— removed. This was the 
season of ploughingand padi-planting, or as will be interred, 
the commencement of the rainy season, and as the catkins, 
or flowers, are borne in the axils of new growths the vines 
would not be overshaded during the growing season.^ 
Througout the allotments there was a system of tanks 
for the reception of manure which was applied in the form 
of liquid, and over the whole undertaking the vines bore 
evidence of being well manured, and carefully tended, and 
the gardens were clean of weeds. 
-4 was not able to obtain figures showing the yield per 
acre, nud from some Trang pepper I have since seen I 
should estimate the average crop as less than that of native 
pepper. 
[ brought back (1 believe) 500 cuttings, of these a pait 
were sent to Clapis estate, and the balance pi anted at Kwala 
Kangs a r garden, from where it may be possible to obtain 
later information. \ 
R. De^pry. 
