d to vegetate. The plants are
then to be set out at intervals of thirty or forty feet--the latter
if ground can be spared--and the depth will be regulated by the
nature of the soil, and the nut must not be covered with earth. The
plants require, in exposed situations, to be shaded for one and even
two years, and no lalang grass must be permitted to encroach on
their roots. A nursery must be always held in readiness to supply
the numerous vacancies which will occur from deaths and accidents.
The following may be considered the average cost of a plantation,
until it comes into bearing:--

FIRST COST--100 ORLONGS OF LAND.
Spanish dollars.
Purchase money of land, ready for planting 1,000
7,000 nuts at 11/2 dollars, per 100 105
Houses of coolies, carts, buffaloes, &c., &c. 100
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Spanish dollars 1,205

YEARLY COST OF SEVEN YEARS.

First year, 10 laborers at 3 dollars per month, including
carts, &c. 360
Wear and tear of buildings, carts, and implements 50
Overseer, at 7 dollars per month 84
Quit rent, average 50
Nursery and contingencies 50
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Total per annum 594
Seven years at the rate will be 4,158
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Total, Spanish dollars 4,752

To this sum interest will have to be added, making, perhaps, a sum
total of 6,000 Spanish dollars, and this estimate will make each
tree, up to its coming into bearing, cost one Spanish dollar at the
lowest. The young tree requires manure, such as putrid fish and
stimulating compounds, containing a portion of salt. On the
Coromandel coast, the natives put a handful of salt below each nut
on planting it.

The cultivators of Kiddah adopt a very slovenly expedient for
collecting the fruit. Instead of climbing the tree in the