Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

46 VEGETABLES AND FRUIT.

tree, large or small, the largest would cover a
tolerable sized round table; many have painted
figures and devices, and from their lightness
may be waved by children without much
labour. I have seen very pretty punkahs made
of sweet-scented flowers over a frame of bamboo.
This, however, is a temporary indulgence, as
the flowers soon lose their fragrance.

" Turkaaree," "Mayvour" (The first is veget-
ables ; the last, fruit).—Vegetables of every kind
and many sorts of fruits are carried about by
men and women, who describe the name and
quality of the articles they have to sell. It
would occupy too large a space to enumerate
here the several productions, indigenous and
foreign, of the vegetable world in India. The
Natives in their cookery, use every kind of
vegetable and fruit in its unripe state. Two
pounds of meat is in general all that is required
to form a meal for twenty people, and with this
they will cook several dishes by addition of as
many different sorts of vegetables.

Herbs, or green leaves, are always denomi-
nated saag, these are produced at all seasons of