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The first, seeds^ require to be gathered quite ripe ; to be 



wrapped, a quantity of each, in paper (couxiuon brown 

 paper is as good as any), done up in a parcel, and kept, if 

 possible, while on board-ship in <m airy part of the cabin. 

 Bulbs and tubers should be taken up when the foliaj^e 



has withered, and, if well dried, they m 

 the same wav as seeds. 



be packed in 



(7w^fz/?^5.— Generally speaking it is yain to attempt 

 sending cuttings of plants to a distance : they soon perish. 

 But this is not the case with the greater number of suc- 

 culent plants, those with thick and firm fleshv stems and 

 leaves. Such are many of the Cactus tribe in South 



^Vmerica ; the various succulents of South Africa, 



Aloes y Euph 



Stapelia 



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Meserahry anther iium 

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Bromelia^ or Pine-apple tribe, and the Agaves^ or Ame- 

 rican Aloes, will sur\dve a long time as cuttings. The 

 cuttings should be taken off, if possible, where there is a 

 contraction or articulation of the stem, or at the settin 

 on of a branch : the wound ouglit to be dried by exposure 

 to the sun ; and all such cuttings may be |)acked in a 

 box, with paper wrapped about them, or any dry elasti 

 substance to keep them steady. 



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are of a succulent nature, small Cactuses, Aloes, Bromelias, 



Zamias^ &c. 



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valued in European stoves) the various Epiphytes or Air- 

 plants, those numerous orcMdeous plants and others of 

 the Arum tribe, which clothe the trunks and branches of 

 trees in tropical countries :— all these will bear a long 

 voyage if removed with their roots and stowed in a box. 



