Note 1 — PREFACE. (continued 6)

When the taro tops take root, then the dirt is cleared away, and again thrown up, and the old leaves of the plant, two or three perhaps, are taken off, so that the taro plant might flourish. This work was called weeding.1 When the plant has grown about one and a half feet high, the dirt is thrown back around the plant and covered with grass. This is the object: Cover the field thick with grass that the weeds may not thrive with the rain. After a year has passed, the taro is pulled up together with some sprigs, leaving some young taro shoots in the hills. At that time the taro tops are called by several names; the omuomuo,2 the puu,3 the oha,4 the aae.5