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FRUIT-TEEES IN KASHMEER. 
Vines are of many varieties, both of exotic and indigenous origin; 
of the former are the Moskha, Sahibee, Hoosenee, and Kishmishee, 
which last was introduced by the Emperor Juhangeer Kabool. The 
latter, or those indigenous and cultivated, are Pamuthil, Takree, 
Upamahee, Burn kawur, Nika kawur, Kacheeboor, Kanahepee, 
Harduch, and Kathoo Hoosnenee. The wild Grapes are Deza, 
Kuwaduch, and Umburbaree. 
The four first are good, but it is said that those of similar name in 
Kabool, are still better. 
The skirts of the southern face of the northern hills were formerly 
largely clothed with vines, and under Hindoo rule, much wine was 
made. 
The practice was continued to, or revived in, the reign of Juhan¬ 
geer. 
A little brandy is occasionally distilled, even now, and under suit¬ 
able management might vie with Cogniac. 
The Mulberry has many varieties, with fruit large or small, sweet 
or sour, round, oblong, and cylindrical, black or white, with and 
without seed. 
The sweet are Boota, Sea, Suffed, and Bootnee. 
The sour is the Shah Toot. No Mulberry of Europe, or of 
Lower India, is equal to the sweet varieties, of w r hich the juice fur¬ 
nishes a material for wine and spirit. The fruit of the Shah Toot is 
much superior to the Europe Mulberry, being larger and more juicy, 
with a pure rich acid uncontaminated by any medicinal flavour. 
This fruit would afford a great resource to the population of India, 
as well when eaten ripe, as for wine and vinegar. 
The Pomegranate has the following varieties, viz.: Duhan, Jula- 
labadee, Kathidehun, Hudehun, and Jiggree. 
Several of these are particularly fine as to flavour, and the size is 
large. 
The Almonds are not especially good. The Walnuts are of four 
varieties, viz.: Kanuk donoo, which is wild and worthless; Wantoo, 
Doonoo, and Kaguzee. The three last are cultivated, and the Ka- 
guzee is the best, but its thin shell exposes its kernel to the attack 
of the Boolbool. 
In Kashmeer, the Custom-house pass return of the produce of the 
fruit in Oil; and OilCake amounts annually to 1,30,000 Rs. in¬ 
dependently of the quantity of nuts consumed by man. The qua¬ 
lity of the wood of the cultivated walnut also, for gunstocks, is little 
inferior to that of Britain. 
