خلاصه ماشینی:
· (t) describes six kinds of water :-( 1) Sweet water, lightest of all and used as nourishment for human beings and plants, (2) Rain water, useful for all plants, especially for cotton and such others as stand only on one stem with roots close to the surface of the soil.
All plants whose roots are weak and close to the surface of the soil require canal water and manure and grow better in canal water than in other kinds of water.
Plants are in need of spring; water, three times in the year: in winter, autumn * Prof.
In the case of trees without stone fruits, either their seeds are sown or their healthy twigs are cut and planted (whether ob• tained from top or from lower parts or twigs growing on or near about their roots).
The ground should be dug up and treated with manure; then the uiatads should be fixed in the soil to the depth of a hand and watered for three years, then transplanted.
. § Times considered suitable for planting trees, aw tad and 'Uyun ( or tiny twigs) from Ibn Hajjaj's book.
They should be _sown in pits dug in a row ( each pit of three spans breadth or less, its depth depending on the strength,* of the stone-fruit), and the ground well watered.
§ Planting trees whose fruits have no stones in them, (like quince, apple, guava, orange, lemon, figs, As, mulberry etc.