_Dec. 1st._--COLONEL TRAVERS, who every day tells us something curious that he has seen in his travels, has been describing the cultivation of the pepper vine in the East Indies. In July, at the beginning of the rainy season, from eight to twelve shoots are planted round some tree chosen for their support; as they grow up they must be tied to its stem, and in dry or hot weather they are watered. They begin to bear in six years; in ten, they are in full perfection, and continue so for twenty years more, when they die. When the fruit is intended for _black_ pepper, it is not allowed to ripen, but collected while green. As soon as the berries become hard and firm, which happens between the midd…
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