a plan that was attended with the very best results, 

 and as, in India, our distances are very great, and 

 as a considerable amount of money has been already 

 lost, and a very great deal of disappointment occa- 

 sioned, by the ignorant packing of tea seeds, I shall 

 give J\lr. Fortune's account of the plan adopted by 

 him in his own words : 



" My first experiment was tried in the following 

 manner. Having procured some fine mulberry- 

 plants from the district where the best Chinese silk 

 is produced, I planted them in a Ward's case in the 

 usual way, and watered them. In two or three days, 

 when the soil was sufficiently dry, a large quantity 

 of tea-seeds were scattered over its surface, and 

 covered with earth about half an inch deep. The 

 whole was now sprinkled with water, and fastened 

 down with a few cross-bin's to keep the earth in 

 its place. The case was then screwed down in the 

 usual way, and made as tight as possible. 



When the case reached Calcutta, the mulberry- 

 plants were found to be in good condition, and the 

 tea-seeds had germinated during the voyage, and 

 were now covering the surface of the soil. Dr. 

 Falconer, writing to me upon the receipt of this 

 case says, " The young tea-plants were sprouting 

 around the mulberries as thick as they could 

 come up." 



During this year (1849) large quantities of seeds 

 irere sown in other eases between the rows of young 



