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the occidental ones; they are also darker in colour; and, being pre¬ 
served without sugar, are more acid, and better adapted for medicinal 
purposes, than the West Indian fruit, which is preserved by the addi¬ 
tion of a considerable quantity of sugar. The latter, however, form the 
most agreeable dessert. 
“ In India a kind of sherbet is made by the natives, by steeping 
tamarind pulp in water; and, in times of scarcity, the tamarind stones, 
divested of the skin, which is very astringent, are roasted, and eaten as 
beans by the poorer people.”— Burnet. 
Tamarind trees, in a wild state, are very common over all the coast 
of Coromandel. In the absence of palms, they are the most numerous 
and the highest trees of the jungles. They have short, but very stout, 
trunks, with a large-spreading head, equal in size to the largest beech 
trees in England. They bear great quantities of fruit, very little of 
which is ever gathered by the natives, except from off the lower 
branches. 
With us the tamarind tree is a stove plant, and is propagated by 
cuttings. 
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Kitchen Garden.— -The principal operations in this month in the 
kitchen garden are, first, to prepare a rich open spot of ground for trans¬ 
planting out a full crop of early spring cabbage from the seed-bed sown in 
August. If the seedlings were pricked into nursing-beds in September, 
they may remain there till near the end of this month before they are 
transferred to their final stations : and, secondly, to get the earliest 
crop of cauliflower plants into their winter quarters ; a certain number 
of the largest plants being put under a rank of hand-glasses, and the 
rest planted in frames, or on narrow beds on warm-lying borders, 
where they may be occasionally covered in winter. 
The first sowings of Charlton peas and Mazagan beans may be put 
in, on a dry warm border, towards the end of the month: if they sur¬ 
vive the winter, they will yield their pods very early in spring. A 
small piece of Early Horn Carrot may now be sown in a spare frame ; 
or, if on an open sheltered border, and covered during hard frost, will 
come in for use very early in the next year. 
Taking care of the growing crops of cauliflower now coming into use; 
broccoli, which will require hoeing among and earthing up ; celery the 
same; late-sown spinach hoed out and kept free from weeds; endive 
blanched, and a good stock of the middle-sized plants put into frames, 
or planted in dry sheltered places, to be covered with dry leaves in 
