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beyond the Atlantic: nothing is therefore more ne- 
cessary than to facilitate the transportation of seeds and 
plants into distant countries in a state of vegetation. 
The ingenious and great promoter of natural history, 
John Ellis, Esq; has favoured the world with a curious 
pamphlet, containing the best directions for that purpose ; 
it would be therefore superfluous to repeat what he has 
already said, were it not necessary to make my perform- 
ance more compleat, by inserting a few hints abstraéted 
from his useful publication; and adding to it some re- 
marks of my own. 
Seeds of all kinds, intended to be sent abroad, must 
be collected perfectly ripe in dry weather, and kept dry 
without exposing them to sunshine. Hard nuts, and 
leguminous seeds, may be plunged for a moment in the 
preparing liquor and then dried again, as this would 
prevent insects from attacking them. In general must 
the seeds be previously examined, and care taken that 
no inse¢ts may be sent with them; this can sometimes 
be discovered by the naked eye, sometimes by a magnify- 
ing glass, and by a little brown or black spot on the out- 
side of the seed; such ripe and chosen seeds, if of a good 
size, each of them may be wrapped in a flat piece of 
bees-wax ; if small or quite minute, many may be put 
together in such a piece of bees-wax, or, what is still 
bemwer im a piece of cerate paper, i.e. paper steeped in 
melted bees-wax, and all these parcels must be put in a 
pot or box, proportionate to the quantity of seeds you 
have, filled with melted wax, to the height of about the 
size of the seeds you are to send, or the parcels you have 
made; and when the wax is pretty cool, but still soft, 
lay your seeds or parcels in rows in the soft wax, and then 
fill again some melted wax in, and proceed to lay seeds 
in the same manner till your pot or box be full. Pulpy 
seeds, as those of strawberries, mulberries, arbutus’s, 
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