Wilkinson, John Gardner: Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt: being a short account of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the second cataracte and Wadi Samneh, with the Fyoom, Oases and eastern desert, from Sooez to Bertenice (London, 1835)

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SUMMER PRODUCTIONS.

[Chap. V.

Eng. Name. Arabic Name.

Botanical Name.

Observations.

Yellow D.

RedD.

Falling D.
Millet

Sugar-cane

D. Saffra

D.Han

Furay't* or
Khoray't
Dokhn

Included with the H
Sorghum, L.

A var. of H. sorgh.

H. bicolor, L.

Holcus saecharatus, h.

Saccharum officinarum,
L.

Cotton

Q6tn

Simsim

Coffee
Indigo

Bon or bunn
NeelehJ

Gossypium herbaceum,
L.

Sesamum orientate, L.

Coffea Arabica, L.
Indigofera argentea, L

Cut in winter; sown when the
Nile is at its height, in mid. of
Aug., and banked up; ripens in
120 days. U.E.
Cut also in 120 days; mostly in
southern provinces; sown mid.
Aug.; mixed with the Byood;
seed red.

Grows with D. Saffra, but ripens
in about 90 days. U. L. E.
Only about E' Sooan in Nubia,
and the Oasis; sown same time
as the Doora.
Planted mid. March; cut next
Jan.; till March constantly irri-
gated. If cut, or broken at the
root, and then watered for the
ensuing year, it produces several
shoots, which, though not arriv-
ing at the height of the first
year's cane, yield better (but
less quantity of) sugar: this
crop is called Khilfeh; planted
horizontally, in slips. U. E.
Planted in March, and summer;
gathered in Nov., Dec, Jan.;
renewed every third year from
seeds; in good soil, some is ga-
thered the fifth month. U. L. E.
Gives the oil called seerig; ripens
in about 100 days; sown 10
days after the D. Byood. U.L.E.
Grown about Benoot, near Qe-
neh; does not answer.f
Sown in April; cut first time
after 70 days; 2nd after 40; 3rd
after 30; 4th in 25, in first year;
they then leave it without water
all the winter, and water it again
in March; in 40 days cut first
crop; 2nd in 30; 3rd in 30: third
year the same. After three years
renewed from seed; first year's
crop the best. 1 qantar (of 500
rotl) is sold for 5 and 7 real;
1 feddan gives from 2 to 2£
qantar. U.L.E.

* So called from the seed falling, on being struck, or under heavy wind. They do not
use its grain.

+ The Nubians use the seeds of the Karikadan, sida mutica, for coffee; but they
generally mix them with a little coffee, of which they have the effect of increasing the
bulk, and spoiling the flavor.

| This signifies blue, but not in the Arabic of Egypt. El Neel, a general appellation
for large deep rivers, seems to have been borrowed from their blue color.