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AGRICULTURE.

other hand, is but little practised, except to some extent in
the cooler regions of the higher mountains, where * European”
 vegetables are grown for sale in the markets of
Kandy and Colombo. Ceylon has no export of fruit to
Europe or America, such as that which forms so great a
mainstay in Jamaica and other parts of the West Indies,
though there is reason to suppose that such an industry
might pay well enough if started on a large scale with sufficient
 capital to provide for the supply of large quantities
of fruit to the markets of Europe. Plantains (bananas)
are exported to India.

COCOANTUTS AND PLANTAINS,.

The chief fruit trees are mentioned above, viz, the jak,
breadfruit, plantain, mango, lime, orange, papaw, pomegranate,
 custard apple, pineapple, and rambutan.
The vegetables are chiefly yams, gourds, sweet potatoes,
beans of various kinds, onions, and numerous more or less
gtronglvy flavoured ¢ enrrv stuff’?

Products of the Cocoanut Palm.
With the possible exception of the palmyra palm, there is
probably no single plant capable of so great a variety of
uses as the cocoanut palm, which forms one of the greatest