laud ODITTJEE in (HIATBMAI.A. 
In clearing a Guatemalau gj, 
are felled in January. ^er 
and duidng April and May the fallen timber 
is bui-ned, only the huge ogs a 
being left for the ants to renio\ e. 
is thfn tolerably clear and ready for 
which shoiUd be done'beforo the lainy . . 
soubefitus, in Jxuie* 
The crops best adapted for cultivation are 
in a measure indicated by the existence ot 
wild specimens.. Thus the Cacao, w c 
abounds ivild, is a most valuable crop. Kows 
of Bananas or Plantains are set out, foui-teeu 
or fifteen feet apart, to protect the 
Caeao-ti-ees until the Erythrinas, or “ Madre 
Cacao,” are sufficiently gi-own, for the Cacao 
is impatient of the dii-ect sun. Plants are 
raised from seed and begin to flower at tlu-ee 
years, but do not bear a good crop until five 
year's. There are two crops yearly—one in 
December and January, and a larger one in 
May and Jane. The tree endures about 
forty years, and each yields about a pound 
and a half. 
Pine-apples grow wild wherever there is a 
clearing, and the quality is far better than 
any we find in our markets. When cultivated, 
the field is cleaned five or six times a year, 
and the crop is ready sixteen or eighteen 
months after planting, and may be computed 
at four thousand fruits per acre. No replant¬ 
ing is necessary, and it is only needed to thin 
ont the plants yearly. 
The beautiful and interesting Nutmeg-free 
grows about thirty feet high, and is very 
long-lived. The climate and soil are very 
suitable for it. It begins to bear at the 
seventh year, aud by the ninth the yield 
maybe five thousand fruits, besides seventy- 
five pounds of Mace. 
The Cocoa-nut is, pei-haps, one of the most 
profitable ventures, as after the first two 
yeai'S no care is required. At five years they 
begin to bear, and two years later the crop 
in these favored lands should average two 
hundred nuts to a tree. 
Bananas are cultivated in all the bottom 
lands, and are exceedingly profitable. Great 
mistakes have been made iu its cultivation, 
especially in not giving the plants room 
enough, for, if crowded or shadetl, the bunches, 
which may weigh ninety pounds, dwindle 
to, twenty-five, and are no longer marketable. 
The Plantains are much larger, often fif¬ 
teen to twenty inches long, of firmer sub¬ 
stance, and are generally eaten cooked, iind 
it is a matter of sui-prise ,and regret that we 
do not find this most excellent vegetable in 
our raai’kets. 
Maize produces three crops i)i a year 
and grows so Ull that the essayist could 
not reach the ears (three to a stalk) on 
horseback, and had to fell this Corn-tree to 
get them. 
^ The most important crops are CoiTec and 
Sugar-cane; but Oranges, Lemons, Limes, 
Citrons, Pompelnoes, Shaddocks, Pigs, Rose- 
Apples, Cherimolias, Mammeos, Alligator 
Pears, Sapotas, Granadillns, Bread-fruits, 
Tamarinds, Papayas, and hosts of other fine 
fniits, whose very names are strange to us, 
all grow luxuriantly. ’ 
Most of the Coffee for which Guatemala is 
do 
quire 
jyjd continue to plant every two week 
- . „,,nwu m '■'* n Api’jl date it is of bfM * 
in the ! to plant anything bnt Sweet Potatoes. J 
' because the weather is too hot— 850 ^ ■ 
' |,],e liighest point ever reached—hut^ 
! simply wont grow. Por ten months of a 
I year I am assured a nice variety of ve **** 
' ables, and for the two other months 11?^' 
I « Prtf.ofnAtt n.nd 'R<yfy-nlii.nf. t _ 
meat of Alta the high 
Coban, and on but it has been 
table-lands of the ^ ’ flourishes on 
Sund that the LibenanCoffe^^^^^ 
the Atlantic foies ’ rpbe trees le- 
better than 11‘® * ^ young, and 
shade, Jitvitlithem. The 
Bananas arc usually p an drying, 
labor of picking, t e -.eesses of hulling, 
„,„d the ,1' It m'op to harvest 
render this a and where the 
soon exhausted by 
.....nfitable crop, not- 
Coffee; 
witlistanding. 
These rich lands are 
imiuoMSO mill in 
and must grind 
than any hitherto moni 
^^t^Tatn-rvofitablccrop, 
most admirably 
adapted to frriff pr^teetimb 
EiSX^^^NaLre, The 
Jlttherehas^m'eatdiffieultyinpres^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
L seed-cane through the winter, and must 
grind his crop before frost. 
Hence he has to have an 
proportion to his acreage, . • , , 
his entire crop in ten days or a torinight, 
whUe his expensive mill is idle all the le 
of the year, and the crop seldom exceeds a 
ton to the.acre of the poorest quality of Sugar. 
In Guatemala the land is not even plowed 
for Sugar, but a hoe scratches the furrows, 
into which the seed-cane is laid, and a few 
strokes of the hoe cover it. Then begins the 
fight with weeds ; as the planting is done in 
May, before the June rains come on, the 
first weeding will be needed in June, and by 
the end of July the young cane will be iiigh 
enough to get ahead of the weeds. Twice 
at least tliereafter tlie process of thrashing 
goes on. Tills eousists in passing down the 
rows and breakuig off the dead lower leaves 
and trarapling them under foot, which makes 
an excellent mulching. In January the cut¬ 
ting begins, and as there is no frost it may 
last three months, if necessary, and the yield 
averages four tons to the acre of the best 
refinery Sugar. But the most remarkable 
contrast to Louisiana Sugar-raising is that, 
while tliero tlie laborious planting must be 
done every year, in the bottom lands of 
Guatemala crops have been cut sixteen years 
without replanting, with no perceptible dim¬ 
inution iu the yield. — ir. r. ISri<iliiim, before 
llie Mans. Ilorlieiilliiral ffoeieli/. 
Sweet Potatoes and Egg-plant, so I man„ 
to survive. The gi'ound of mygai,fle„ . 
really occupied with a crop for the whol* 
year. Of cotu'se this is very trying to tl,*^ 
■j,oii; but I fertilize highly with stable mj! 
jiure, artificial fertilizer, and sea-weed, jtl 
most every vegetable raised in the temperate 
scene will floiu'ish here, though some utterly 
refuse to grow. 
The farmer of Bermuda devotes almost 
Ills entire energies to the raising of Potatoes 
Onions, and Tomatoes, though many noC 
are trying other ei'ops. (Several are tryiag 
Strawberries, others Grapes, both Northern 
and exotic ; others Beans, Peas, Egg-plant, 
and Cauliflower. One farmer has been ex¬ 
perimenting iu raising extensively the Ber- 
mnda Easter Lily, a beautiful white Lily 
wliieli flourishes here to a wonderful degree. 
His fields ot two hundred thousand bulbs, 
wliite with blossoms, is a rare sight to be- 
hold. If these blossoms could only be pnt 
down on Broadway, on a February day, his 
fortune would be assured; but, unfortu¬ 
nately, he cannot, aud he makes his money by 
selling the bulbs to the American and Euro¬ 
pean florists, who force these bulbs in green¬ 
houses aud put the blossom on your market 
in tlie winter months at large prices.—As- 
rell Hasliiuin, in A'. T. TriUuiie. 
BERMUDA &ARDENS. 
In tins sub-fropical i.sland, wlmre the moan 
tem))eratiiro for the coldest inontlis is 02°_ 
the coldest point readied last winter bein.. 
;'. 7 °. and the highest 70°-1 begin planting 
my gaideri about September 20; planting 
otatoes I nnups, Gai.bago, Carrots, Beets 
Beans, leas, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Onions 
Spnmeh, Cauliflower, Colery, Parsdps, and 
all tliose vogetahlos which will llonrisli al a 
teiriporatiire l,olow 7 (i°. | pi,,,,!, every lw„ 
weeks Irom Boptomher l„ March the Pot,i|„ 
Bean, and Beet, Ihns growing a succosd 
of fresh new vogotahles for rnv lahlo r. 
Aovomher ir. on throngh noarly a,l H,; 
twelvomonth. My Stra,wherries h.L„ " 
.* 
Melons,’'^fslI/2omCo!.n''Fg^^^^ 
I IViilt- 
Apvil ; 
COCOA-NUTS IN INDIA. 
Ciu'iously enougli, at a little distance bom 
tlio sandy levels or alluvial flats of the sea¬ 
shore, the sea-loving Cocoa-nut will not 
bring its nuts to perfection. It will gio"', 
indeed, but it will not thrive or fruit in due 
season. On the coast-line of Southern India 
iraiueiiso groves of Cocoa-nuts fringe the 
shore for miles aud miles together; and in 
some parts, as in Travaneare, they form the 
cliief agrionUuval staple of the whole coun¬ 
try. “ The state has heneo facetiously boon 
called Cocoanut-eore,” says its historian? 
wliieli charmingly illustrates the true Ango- 
Iiidiaii notion of what constitutes faoo^ 
tioiisnoss, and ought to strike the last nai 
into the coHin of a competitive examination 
system. 
A good tree, in full-heaving, should pno^ 
diico one liiiiulred and twenty Cocoa-n'dn i 
snnill gi’ovo >■ 
rospootablo 
Ah,''-''n^ " 
tlio 
a season ; so that a vci'y 
quite siillieioiit to luaintiiiii a 
family in decency and comfort, 
iiiistako tlio English elimiite miide "lioa 
it 
loft oil its primitivo warmth of the ten 
liei'iod, and got chilled by tho ice tind sin^^^ 
of the glacial epoch down to its P'?** ? 
misl.y and dreary whoiit-growiiig ''l.ps 
If it were not for that, those odious 
of steady industry and imi'severiiuee 'n^ 
never have boon developed in oui’se ' ‘ ^ 
all, and we might be lazily pickh'fl 
off oiir own Conoa-palms to this 
export iu return for tho piece-goods 0 
Arctic Manehostor, situated some 
about the north of Spitzborgon or 
l^ihorian Islands.— Alton Oront, hi 
‘yi'micine. 
