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thefe means; and though many of the feedlings will die, yet by © 
this kind of management we may probably fucceed in bringing 
over the moft curious vegetable productions of China, of which 
they have an amazing treafure, both in refpect to ufe, thew, and 
variety". If young plants could be procured in China, they 
might be fent over in a growing fiate in fome of thefe boxes. 
The young Tea-plants in the gardens about London thrive | 
very well in the green-houfes in winter, and fome bear the 
open air in fummer. The leaves of many of them are from 
one to three inches long, not without a fine deep verdure; 
and the young fhoots are fucculent. It is therefore probable, 
that in a few years many layers may be procured from them, 
and the number of plants confiderably increafed thereby. 
‘It may not be improper to obferve here, that many exotic 
vegetables, like human conftitutions, require a certain period 
before they become naturalized to a change of climate ; many 
plants, which on their firft intreduGtion would not bear our 
winters without fhelter, now endure our hardeft frofts; the 
beautiful magnolia, among feveral others, is a Peet of this 
= Buother method has fucceeded with fous North American feeds, by putting 
them into a box, not made too clofe, upon alternate layers of mofs, in fach a man~ 
ner as to admit the feeds to yegetate, or fhoot their fmall tendrils into the mofs. 
In the paflage, the box may be hung up at the roof of the cabin ; and, when ar- 
rived here, the feeds fhould be put into pots of mold, with a little of the mofs alfo 
_ about them, on which they had lain. This method has procured us feeds in a ftate 
fit for vegetation, which had often mifcarried under the preceding precautions ; 
and therefore might be ted at leaft with Tea and other oriental feeds.. In order 
to fi ae a. 4 
| € certainly, fome of the Tea feeds, in whatever manner they may have - 
| been cere fhould be fown when the veffel arrives at St. Helena, and alfo after 
fing sone eee = —— near the latitude of 30 degrees North. 
| obfervation ; ; 
