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fewer than from twenty to thirty each of the Muscatel, 

 Bloom, and Pedro Ximenes. 



" The interstices formed by the cuttings to be filled up 

 with sand and very dry soil. Two boxes of the above 

 description to be prepared, one to be sent by the first 

 vessel which sails after the vines can be cut with safety, 

 which undoubtedly may be done about the 1st of De- 

 cember, the duplicate by the next vessel that may follow, 

 both addressed to Messrs. Walker, London, who will pay 

 all expenses which may have been incurred up to the 

 arrival of the boxes in London, and will send them to 

 New South Wales by different ships, and by the earliest 

 opportunities. Perhaps, in addition to the above, Mr. 

 Kirkpatrick will take the trouble to procure a quantity, 

 say a gallon, of the freshest Royal Dates of Barbary ; 

 also a few of the common varieties, and a gallon of Jordan 

 almonds, and send them in a box to the same address. 

 Also in the same box a few seeds of the very fine onion, 

 which is so abundant in Malaga, and of any esteemed 

 kind of melons, or any other fruit or vegetable grown from 

 seed which may be considered worth attention. After 

 my arrival in London I shall ascertain what are the best 

 seasons and modes of sending plants of the Spanish 

 chesnut and Jordan almond, and I will take the liberty 

 to write Mr. Kirkpatrick upon the subject, satisfied, as 

 I cannot but feel, that he will esteem it rather a pleasure 

 than a trouble to contribute to the advancement of a 

 colony containing so large a proportion of his country- 

 men as New South Wales." 



During my stay in Malaga I also wrote to my friend 

 Dr. Wilson a letter, which contained the following 

 observations and queries relative to Sherry wines :~ 



^' I have been thinking a good deal about the 



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