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branches give way under the pressure of abundance. I have 

 made 100 gallons of cider and 25 of vinegar this week and have 

 filled all my casks and only just begun. I wish you could see 

 and taste my fruit. 



Yours, &c., 



JUNIUS SMITH. 



Water and nutmeg melons in abundance of finest quality. 



J. S. 



Golden Grove Tea Plantation, \ 

 Greenville, S. C, Jan. 1, 1851. ^ 



Adoniram Chandler, Esq., 



Corresponding Secretary Am. Ins. : 

 Dear Sir — I am in receipt of your favor of 28th November, 

 and am always glad to hear from the American Institute, and 

 should be well pleased to hear from the individual members 

 with whom I formed an agreeable acquaintance the short time I 

 resided in your city. 



My time and labors are devoted to the main object which 

 brought me to this part of the country. My supply of tea nuts 

 last year, 1849, was very short, and a large proportion of those 

 received, together with all the tea plants, perished in transpor- 

 tation. Thus, to a casual observer, it would seem that all was 

 lost. But I regarded the disaster as a trial sent as a matter of 

 discipline to give force to a bended, not a broken bow. The 

 apparent loss was a great and substantial gain. My attention 

 was directed from modes of transportation, which this experience 

 proved would not answer, to others, which I judged from reason- 

 ing, for I had no other guide, would afford greater security. I 

 was correct in my views. 



My instructions transmitted to China, were faithfully execu- 

 ted, and the three different methods in which I directed the nuts 

 to be packed, proved perfectly successful ; every package came 

 to hand — one after a passage of 180 days from Canton to New- 

 York — in admirable condition. The tea plants packed in China 

 under the direction of a gentleman of great horticultural experi- 



