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But neither of thefe methods have fucceeded generally, 
notwithftanding the utmoft care, both in getting frefh feeds, 
and in fecuring them in the moft effectual manner. The beft 
method is to fow the ripe feeds in good light earth, in boxes, 
at leaving Canton; covering them with wire, to prevent rats 
and other fuch vermin coming to them. The boxes, plans of 
which are annexed, fhould not be expofed to too much air, nor 
to the fpray of the fea, if poffible. The earth fhould not be 
fuffered to grow dry and hard, but a_ little frefh or rain water 
may be fprinkled over it now and then; and, when the feedling 
plants appear, they fhould be kept moift, and out of the burn- 
ing fun". Moft of the as now in England were procured by 
In a paper by John Sneyd, Efq. inferted in the Tranfadtions of the Society for 
the Encouragement of Arts, Vol. XVI. p. 265, a method of preferving feeds is 
related, which-appears to have been highly fuccefsful ; this is merely by packing up 
feeds in abforbent paper, and furrounding the fame by raifins, or brown moift 
fugar; which, by experiment, feems to afford that oan moifture requifite to 
preferve the feeds in a ftate fit for vegetation. 
Thouin, in his direétions to the unfortunate navigator Baha. recommends the 
feeds to be placed in alternate layers of earth or fand, in tin boxes, which muft be- 
clofed up exaétly, and placed in folid cafes, which fhould be covered with waxed © 
cloth; the boxes fhould be put in a part of the fhip the leaft acceflible to moifture, 
and the moft fheltered from extreme heat or cold.” Vol. I. p. 278. 
t 'The carrying of trees cannot be done, with any hope of fuccefs, except in» 
boxes, wherein they may yegetate during the voyage. For this purpofe it is: 
neceflary to have a box forty inches long by twenty broad, and as much in depth, . 
with a dozen holes bored through the bottom, for the fuperabundant water to run . 
off. Its upper part muft be compofed of a triangular frame, upon which lattice 
work of iron wire muft be fitted, with glazed frames and window fhutters, to keep. 
up a free circulation of air, encreafe the warmth when neceflary, and keep out the 
cold.” Péroufe’s Voyage, Vol. I. p. 283. 
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