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Groundnut 
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Hairy Wax Gourd 
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French Bean 
1 
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Jerusalem Artichoke 
1 
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If 
Luffa acuta ngula 
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Water Melon 
5 'beds of quick-maturing Sweet Potatoes 
5 ” ** Tapioca. 
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Many varieties of Keladi were removed to new beds. 
This month the vegetable plots produced excellent crops of:- 
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1. Brassica; Teo Chew Ghoy Sam (19 days after transplanting) 
2. Snake Grourd 
3- Brinjal 
4. Four-angled Bean 
5. Bong Bean 
6. Cucumber 
7. Bayam 
Other crops giving good yields were:- 
Kachang Bendi 
Sword Bean 
Luffa cylindrica 
Kangkong 
Indian Lettuce 
Basella 
Lettuce 
Miscellaneous crops harvested were:- 
Wax Gourd 
Bottle Gourd 
Pumpkin 
Sweet Potato Tops 
! . Talinum 
Gape Gooseberry 
. . Yarn Bean (19 lb.) 
Elephant Yam 
Carrots ^ 
Radish, Yates Early i 
Silver Beet 
Chillies db Tomatoes 
Gucumls utilaasima 
A good amount of Sweet Potato A Tapioca 
2 bunches of Bananas Rasta 11 
49 Papaya fruits. 
Specimens of vegetables were provided for photographic record by 
the Municipal Agricultural Department. 
7. Experimental results in Vegetable Gardens. 
(^) Yam beans (Bengkuang) - 8 plants were allowed to flower and seed, 
7 plants in same bed had all flowers removed. When the former 
had ripened seeds, all were dug and weight of roots were as 
follows: 
8 plants allo’ved to produce seeds ... 3 lb. 12 02 . 
7 *' with all flowers removed ... 13 lb. 6 02 . 
This clearly indicates the importance of removing the flowers, 
a fact not found in any book. A nuraber of new plants have 
been put out, and these will be treated experimentally in 
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