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required. The difficulty is greater in the hills hut I believe 
something could there be done on a small scale by means of 
branch-wood manuring. 
Fruits. 
The treatment of fruit in the Malay Peninsula is disappointing. 
Formerly when the plantations were fewer and isolation was 
greater, the owners found time to plant fruit trees near their 
houses : but until again quite newly there has been none of this 
done. In the towns men come and men go, having acquired no 
more knowledge of the fruits of the land than another alien — their 
Chinese cook — imparts with a spice of his own interest. Fruit 
growing is, I think, far behind what it should be. 
. The typical fruit of the country is the duriau, borne on a tree of 
forest size and armed against bats, birds and squirrels. Its counter- 
part of the Amazon forest is the Brazil-nut, alike borne on a big tree 
and heavily armoured. The durian can take care of itself : nor does 
it need encouraging in the way that many other less gross fruits do. 
The fruits suitable to the Peninsula are so many that I cannot 
give time to them severally: I propose instead to give a list of them, 
both those for the native and the European customer, and then to 
end with remarks on a very few. I shall divide the list by the size 
of the plant that bears the fruits. 
(i) Trees of some size — 
Aegle marmelos, the bel ; 
A rtocarpus incisa, the bread-fruit or sukun ; 
Artocarpus inteijrifolia, the jack ; 
Artocarpus gomeziana, the tampang ; 
Artocarpus lalcoocha, the tampang manis ; 
. * Artocarpus polyphemia , the chempedak ; 
Baccaurea motleyana, the rambai ; 
Baccaurea parviflora, the setambon ; 
Baccaurea malayana , the tampoi ; 
Bertholletia excelsa, the Brazil-nut ; 
Ganarium commune, the kenari ; 
Diospiyros mabola, the mabolo ; 
Eugenia aquea, the jambu ayer ; 
Eugenia brdsiliensis, the Brazil cherry ; 
Eugenia malaceensis, the jambu bol; 
Mangifera foetida, the bachang ; 
Mangifera indica , the mango ; 
Mangifera odorata, the kuwini ; 
Nephelvum lappaceum, the rambutan; 
Nephelium malaiense, the mata kuching ; 
Nephelium mutabile, the pulasan ; 
Bandoricum indiemn , sentol ; 
Sandorieum radiatmn, the kecliapi ; 
Terminalia catappa, the Bengal almond. 
