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Bried fruits should be sent in cases, with a ticket 

 which indicates the branch of the plant to which 

 they belong. We do the same by gums and resins. 

 Pulpy fruits should be sent in spirits, each in a 

 separate bottle. 



Herbals and fruits, when they are perfectly dry, 

 should be packed in cases covered with pitch, to 

 defend them from mice and insects ; and it will be 

 prudent to add a little cotton, imbued with oil of 

 petroleum, or oil of turpentine. 



It is also desirable to send specimens of useful 

 woods. These specimens ought to be about ten 

 inches long, and, if possible, the width of the 

 tree ; we also wish for a longitudinal and trans- 

 versal cut of the tree : but it is most essential to 

 put a number on the wood, correspond ing to the 

 branch of the tree in the herbal, for botanists are 

 still ignorant to what trees several of the woods 

 belong, which are articles of commerce. 



Amongst the objects sent to us, we shall, doubt- 

 less, find many which we already possess ; still 

 they may be useful. There are plants in our gar- 

 dens which have degenerated, the seeds of which 

 it is desirable to renew. There are some which, 

 with difficulty, fructify in our green-houses, and 

 the seeds of which are not in sufficient quantities 

 to give to all those who request them. Thus, the 

 phormium tenax, or flax of New Zealand, the fibres 

 of which are much stronger th in those of hemp, 



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