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up in the Month of June now being well rooted had them pruned and planted near the old sugar Mill in rows about fifteen feet distance from each other in the following Composition vizt three parts of Cattle manure three of old Coir and a good proportion of the natural soil which is Cabooc loam.
The Ground allotted for the Linnean system being partly trenched and levelled I marked out beds three feet broad leaving eighteen inches between each bed, the soil being rather stiff mixed a quantity of sea sand in the center of the bed at same time putting the plants down & placing a number stick to each and for the present, making down either the Botanic name or Cingalese name, when the former could not be had, till some of the plants flowered. If this piece of ground will not answer for the great variety of plants that we may expect to procure it will be easy to fix upon a spot of ground of quite a different soil. The Epidendrons and plants put in Cocoa nutshells last month thrive so well that I have planted in the same manner the following trees Artocarpus incisa Myristica tomentosa and the new species Eugenia racemosa with some others
B.G. Slave Island on the 26th. of this month the high wind from the south west did considerable damage to the trees and Shrubs very few except some of the very old and well rooted ones being left upright the beginning of the month took up our crop of arrow root that had been planted early in the month of April & having washed the roots very Clean of all the sand and scales etc made the preparation in the same manner that starch is commonly made the increase of the plants is very great and we have now planted Ten beds in the same size as the original and a bed of Cuttings of the flower stems.
Planted a hedge of Gleditschia horrida on one side of Experimental ground and tied up more branches on purpose to thicken the hedge as soon as possible.
G.G.Fort This Garden suffered another deluge this month which destroyed the young crop that was intended to replace the loss