ABSTRACT
Cultivation of rice.—This grain known by one name throughout the Archipelago.—Mountain and marsh rice.—Culture of fugitive crops of mountain rice by burning the forest lands. —Culture of rice in dry arable lands.— Culture of rice in marsh lands by the periodical rains.—Culture of rice by artificial irrigation.— Sowing and reaping.—Fecundity of rice. —Maize.—Probably an object of culture before the discovery of America.—Modes of culture.—Fecundity.—Pulses.— Two chiefly objects of attention.—Cultivation of plants with nutritive roots. —The yam or Igname.—Sweet potatoe, or Balates.—Kăntang, or Javanese potatoe.— Talas.—European esculent plants.— Wheat.—Common potatoe.— Garden stuffs.—Native culinary plants.—Thecummber.—Theonion. —The capsicum.—Oil-giving plants.—The cocoa-nut.— The ground pestachio.—Ricinus, or Palma Christi.—Sago. —Is the principal farinaceous food of the people of the eastern portion of the Archipelago.—Cultivation.—Native country of the sago palm ascertained from the evidence of language. —Mode of reaping the sago harvest, and preparing the farina.—Mode of preparation for storing.—Ediblemushrooms and worms generated from the refuse.—Fecundity of sago.
