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•inches i this will likewife fliade them from the noon-day fun. The va- 

 pour, continually reeking from the cotton laid in the trough, will qC- 

 cend through the holes at the bottom of the box into the oxhevjlratum 

 of cotton laid under the roots, and preferve them in a due ftate of re- 

 frefliing moifture. The boxes may be fteadied by lafhings to the deck.' 



The plants fent from a hotter country to a colder, fliould be put on 

 board (hip in the fpring of the year, that the heat of the fummer may 

 -be advancing as they approach the colder climates ; and on the con- 

 trary, thofe which are fent from a colder to a hotter country, fliould 

 be embarked at the beginning of winter; but if they are originally 

 from another hot climate, as for example tie Eaft Indies,' and are in- 

 tended for Jamaica, by the way of Great Britain, they will be put on 

 board with greatefl: probability of fuccefs in January, February, June, 

 July, or Auguft[i/j, in order that they maybe fet in the ground, juft 

 before the vernal or autumnal rains. If they are going from a hotter 

 country to a colder, they muft have very little watering; if, on the 

 contrary, they are ^oing from a colder to a warmer, they may be al- 

 lowed water more largely; and, being fhaded from the fun, they will 

 arrive fafe. 



A great many plants of the fucculent kind will live out of the earth 

 a long time. Thefe need no other care than packing them up with 

 mofs in a clofe box, mofs being likewife put between them to prevent 

 their bruifing one another, and holes bored in the boxes to keep them 

 from heating and putrefying : in this manner, they will come fafe from 

 a voyage of even four or five months. Several trees may alfo be 

 Brought fafely in the like manner, taking them up at a feafon when 

 they have done growing, and packing them up with mofs. Of this 

 fort are, oranges, olives, capers, jafmines, and pomegranates j thefe, 

 .and many others, are annually brought thus from Italy to England; 

 and, although they are three or four months on the paflage, fcidom 



mifcarry. 



In order to bring fruits in perfeilion from Jamaica, fuch as oranges, 

 lemon>, fliaddocks, citrons and limes, they fliould be gathered before 

 they are turned entirely yellow, with about an inch or two of the flem 

 or pedicle, the extremity of which fhould be immediately feared with 

 a red-hot iron, and then dipped in a compofition of melted rofin, pitch, 

 and bees wax. The fruit may be well wrapped in brown paper, 



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