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Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

CHAPTER 5
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In planting mango groves, it is a rule that they shall be as far from each other as not to admit of their branches ever meeting.
'Plant trees, but let them not touch' ('_Am lagao, nis lagen nahin_') is the maxim.

[W.

H.S.] 2.

_Pakka_; the word here means 'cemented with lime mortar', and not only with mud (_kachcha_).
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The _chambeli_ is known in science as the _Jasminum grandiflorum_, and the mango-tree as _Mangifera Indica_.
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