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1^^^ DIRECl^IONS POR IMPORTING 



When they are dug up, care muft be taken to prcfcrvc 

 as much earth as can be about their roots; and if it fliould 

 f^ill off, it muft be fupplied with more earth, fo as to form 

 a ball about the roots of each plant, which muft be fur- 

 rounded with wet mofs, and carefully tied about with 

 packthread, to keep the earth about the roots moift: Per- 

 haps it may be neceffary to enclofe the mofs with fome pa- 

 per or broad leaves (as the palmetto) that the packthread 

 may bind the mofs the clo 

 moift the longeft. 



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There muft be three inches deep of 

 wet mofs put uito the bottom of the box, and the young 

 trees placed in rows upright clofe to each other, ftuffiag 

 \¥et mofs in the vacancies between them and on the fur- 

 face; over this palmetto leaves, if to be had, ftouldbe put 

 to keep in the moifture, and over them the laths are to be 

 faftened crofs and crofs to the ledges or packthreads to be 

 laced to and fro, to keep the whole ftcady and tight. The 

 lid of the box fhould be either nailed dov^rn clofe, or may 

 have hinges and a padlock to fecure it from being opened, 

 as may be found neceffary, with proper diredions marked 

 on it to keep the lid uppermoft. There muft be two 

 handles fixed, one at each end, by which means there will 

 be lefs danger of difturbing the plants. Near the upper 

 part of the ends of the box, there muft be feveral holes 

 bored to give air: Or in making the box there may be a 

 narrow vacancy left between the boards of one third of an 



inch wide, near the top, to let out the foul air; and per- 

 haps it may be neceflary to nail along the upper edge of 

 thefe openings lift, or flips of fail-cloth, to hang over them, 

 to fecure the plants from any fpray of the fea; and at the 

 fame time It will not prevent the air from paffmg through. 

 Boxes with plants packed in this manner, muft be placed 

 where there is free air, that is, out of the way of the foul 

 air of the ftaip's hold. 



The following method of preferving feeds from turning 

 rancid from their long confinement, and the great heat of 

 the climates which they muft neceffarily pafs through from 



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