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FOREIGN SEEDS AND PLANTS. 



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The method of inclofing tea-feeds fmgly in wax, and 

 bringing them over in that ftate, has been pradifed for 

 fome time; but few have fuccceded, owing to the thinnefs 

 of the coat of wax, or putting paper firft round them, or 

 inclofing them too moift. 



To this I mufl: add a method that promifes fuccefs for 

 bringing over plants from the Weil-Indies, and the foutl 

 ern parts of North-America, particularly Weft-Florida, the 

 voyage from hence being longer than from the Weft-In- 

 les, and more attention is required to keep the phuits in 

 health, than from any other parts of our North-American 

 fettlements : But as there is a good deal of difference la 

 the climates of thele places, it will be necelTary to obferve, 

 that plants from the Weft-Indies fhould be put on board in 

 the latter end of fpring, fo as to arrive here in warm 

 weather, otherwife they will be deftroyed by the cold of 

 this latitude; and the ever-greens, which are the moft 

 curious from Weft-Florida, muft be fent in the winter 

 months, while their juices are inadive, foas to arrive here 

 before the heats come on. If the plants fent from thefe 

 countries were planted '^n pots or boxes, and kept there a 

 year, they might be brought over with very little hazard; 

 or even if they were firft tranfplanted from the woods into 

 a garden, till they had formed roots, they might be fent 

 with much more fafety. 



The fize of the boxes that will be moft convenient for 



flowing them on board merchant-ftiips, where there is very 

 little room to fpare, fhould be three feet long, fifteen in- 

 ches broad, and from eighteen inches to two feet deep, ac- 

 cording to the fize of the young trees; but the fmalleft 

 will be moft likely to fucceed, provided they are well root- 

 ed. There muft be a narrow ledge nailed all round the 

 infide of the box, within fix inches of the bottom, to faf- 

 ten laths or packthread to form a kind of lattice-work, by 

 which the plants may be the better fecured in their places. 

 If the plants are packed up juft before the fhip fails, it 



will be fa much the better. 



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