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leaves sad gerjiu-n foon to perift, and grow rancid.. Such packets of feeds as are not opened, fliould 

 be kept as they come over, in their bottles, canillers, cr jars, in the coolell cellars, in tight cafc, oi 

 clofe boxes; we may obferve, that it has been the praiitice of all ages, in hot climates, to keep corn 

 found, by placing it in fubterraneous caverns. 



The Italians Iiave a method offending fruit through different parts of the country, by giving 

 tliem a llii,ht co\crIng of wax, which prefci'ves them frefli for a long time. If then, ^ve follow the 

 lame method with mangoes, mangolleens, chocolate fruit, avocado pear, and many other fruits, 

 packing them in boxes, or fmall calks, furrounded with clayed fugar, there is no doubt but the flones 

 and feeds, at Icaft, will come over in a found ftate; fome of the ripe mangoes and mangodeens in 

 wax, maybe covered with paper, and fent home in fmall boxes; for fiiould the pulp be decayed, 

 yet the kernels in the rtones may be found, and in a growing flate, as happens in apjiles, oranges, 

 ice, the pulp of which is generally rotten before the feeds are fown. 



The author mentions, that having received from Jamaica a variety of feeds of trees, many ef 

 ivhich were unknown in England, each of which was tied up in a piece ot coarfe brown paper, and 

 the whole packed up in fome flieets of the fame, upon examining of them, by cutting fome of each 

 open, he found that moft of them were become dry and rancid, and very few of ihem vegetated. To 

 prevent a difappointment of this kind for the future, he direfted his correfpondent, when the feeds 

 ot the largeft forts which he might collett fliould be ripe, and properly fweated and cleaned, to put 

 them into tight tin canilters, or earthen vcflels, fuch as pickling jars ; to keep each kind of feed fe- 

 jjarate in a fmall bag of old white linen, or of writing paper, and furround all the forts in the bags 

 with rice, millet, panic, or any fmall farinaceous grain, or ground Indian corn properly dried, to 

 £11 up the interftices or vacancies between the feeds. 



When the canilkr, or jar, is full, and the parcel clofely prelTed down, (but not fo as to bruife the 

 feeds) a fmall quantity of camjihire fliould be inclofed in a piece of paper, or fmall pill-box, and put 

 in at the top of each canifter or jar, which muft be well llufted with paper before the cover is put on. 

 The inclofed fumes of the camphire will deftroy infe£ts; and for the fame purpofe, in fome canif- 

 tcrs, inftead of camphire, a fmall quantity of fulphur, or tobacco, may be put. The tops of the ca- 

 niftcis and jars muft be fecured in fuch a manner as to prevent the external air from getting accefs 

 to their contents. 



Seeds have been brought from China inclofed in tortolfe-fliell, and in horn fnuff-boxes, in nioft 

 excellent order; and fome inclofed in two-ounce phials, corked and fealed. 



Thefe canifters and jars fhould afterwards be put up in boxes, and packed in faw-duft, or clean 

 fand (not fea fand) that has been well waflied and dried, and kept in a cool part of the ihip. Thefe 

 methods are recommended, as. few people will be at the trouble of inclofing feeds properly in bees 

 ■wax. 



Mr. Ellis takes occafion to fpeak of the garden eftablifhed in the ifland of St. Vincent, for the 

 culture of the moll iifeful plants, intended for the general benefit of the American iflands, many of 

 which may, in time, become protitable articles ot commerce. 



This garden, which appears to have owed its plan to the governor, general Melville, is under the 

 xare of Dr. George Young, principal furgeon to the hofpital there, who has been indefatigable in 

 <iolle(Stlng and propagating in it a variety of the moft valuable plants. 



Catalogue of plants ncnv growing in the public garden at St. Vincent's. 

 -Cinnamon, * Sefmium, Coriander, 



* Logivood, * Caffia fiflula, • Anifeed, 



Safflower, * China root, * Vanilla, 



Turmeric, Gum galbanum, * Dates, 



Eaft India mango, Simarouba, *Anotto, 



Taper mulberry, ,„. '"^^ "** *"^ } *Guaiacuin, 



'^ ^ Worm-giafs, J ' 



N. B. The articles marked with a * are growing in Jamaica. 



Scammony, 



