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to Durban vid Zanzibar. If the coincidence of the steamers can 
be secured, they may reach Cape Town within a month of their 
despateh from here, or even less, but if not, we have no doubt 
that the Un company will see what the roots are kept 
carefully wetted while the trees are in bond at the port of origin. 
It is with the object of keeping the roots wet that they are now 
being repotted in hs AS clay, a soil which is in itself favourable to 
the growth of t 
avin: aa sd a general sketch of the scheme, it is 
chance of Sulla doni out arriving in a sondt tion to be of. aij 
value whatever, so that it becomes absolutely necessary to send 
out the plants themselves ; besides, when the pla ants at the Cape 
were ready to be grafted, our grafts would be out of season 
here. We have already secured some excellent plants, from each 
of which a large number of grafts should be available. It does 
not seem possible to secure plants already grafted, for the reason 
that they are not usually grafted in pots, the operation DOE 
after they are planted out and have got a good po 
me. We Bod graft 
these plants till May, 1898, nor can we be sure of the success of 
the eBesgsian till May, 1899, when the plants will be sent out. 
Th a tree which cannot be tran splanted on account of 
its yer 80 that once planted it must remain SER it is ; it is 
therefore very essential to plant it in du right place to begin with. 
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to time to prevent the pista striking a tap-root feculi the hole 
atthe bottom of the pot into the soil, in 3 which case they will 
certainly perish. They will not require very much yet „in fact 
the climate of South Africa so much TA that of Naples thak 
were it not for the clay Whick we must send with them the plants 
