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APPENDIX I. 



INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING PLANTS 

 AND SEEDS FOR THE GARDEN AND 

 THE HERBARIUM, AND THE USEFUL 

 PRODUCTS OF VEGETABLES.— ROYAL 

 GARDENS, KEW. 



I. HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Plants for cultivation may be introduced, — i. As Seeds, 

 Bulbs, and Tubers, which are easily collected and trans- 

 mitted : the Seeds to be gathered when quite ripe and each 

 kind folded in dry paper, then enclosed as a parcel, or 

 placed in a box, and kept in an airy part of the cabin during 

 the voyage. Bulbs and Tubers to be taken, if possible, 

 when the foliage is widiered, and similarly packed. — 2. 

 Cuttings. Most succulent plants, should be severed where 

 there is a constriction or articulation in the stem ; and these, 

 when carefully freed from extraneous moisture, ■^^•ill bear a 

 long voyage, packed in a box, with paper wrapped about 

 them, or any dry elastic substance to keep them steady. — 3 . 

 Rooted Plants : some of these, such as sviall Cactuses, 

 Aloes, Tillandsias, Zamias, and the various epiphytal 

 tropical orchidaceous plants will travel safely if placed in a 

 box, like the cuttings just noticed, the larger kinds packed 

 with straw. But others require a Wardian case, forming a 

 small portable greenhouse. In it the young rooted plants 



