The Javan cotton is a hardy plant, which grows to about the height of a foot and a half. It is generally planted on the _sáwahs_ after the reaping of the rice crop, and yields the cotton in less than three months. The Indian cotton grows to a larger size, and produces a material of an infinitely superior quality; but it is more delicate in its nature, must be watched with greater care, and requires a month longer to attain to maturity. Cotton cultivated on _tégal_, or dry land, is considered as generally better than that raised as a second crop on _sáwah_; and this mode of cultivation has been adduced as the cause of the superiority ascribed to the cotton of _Bâli_, and other more eastern islands. Tobacco,[47] termed by the natives _tombáku_, or _sáta_, is an article of very general cultivation, but is only extensively raised for exportation in the central districts of _Kedú_ and _Bányumás_: as it requires a soil of the richest mould, but at the same time not subject to inundations, these districts hold out peculiar advantages to the tobacco-planter, not to be found on the low lands. For internal consumption, small quantities are raised in convenient spots every where; but the most eastern districts and _Madúra_ are principally supplied from _Púgar_. Bantam receives its supply from _Bányumás_, by means of native traders from _Pakalúngan_ visiting that port in small craft. The produce of _Kedú_ is conveyed by men to _Semárang_, the great port of exportation. In _Kedu_ it forms, after rice, by far the most important article of cultivation; and, in consequence of the fitness of the soil, the plant grows to the height of from eight to ten feet, on lands not previously dressed or manured, with a luxuriance seldom witnessed in India. Cultivated here alternately with rice, only one crop of either is obtained within the year; but after the harvest of the rice, or the gathering of the tobacco-leaves, the land is allowed to remain fallow, till the season again arrives for preparing it to receive the other. The young plant is not raised within the district, but procured from the high lands in the vicinity; principally from the district of _Káli-béber_, on the slope of the mountain _Díeng_ or _Práhu_, where it is raised and sold by the hundred to the cultivators of the adjoining districts. The transplantation takes place in the month of June, and the plant is at its full growth in October. Wheat has been introduced by the Europeans, and cultivated with success to the extent required by the European population. It thrives in many parts of the interior of the country: it is sown in May, and reaped in October; and, where the cultivation has been left to the Javans, the grain has been sold at the rate of about seven rupees the _píkul_.