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add, that the reward which he expected for his labours 

 in China, (a better appointment on the island of Ceylon), 

 he received about six years ago, when he left China. 

 His letters to me, from Malacca and Calcutta, were well 

 written, and evinced so much attention to his proper pur- 

 suits, that I entertained some hopes he would be more 

 successful in his new station ; but I did not hear from him 

 again, and I understand that he died soon after he reached 

 Columbo. 



When I have been myself so fortunate as to find friends 

 willing to take charge of the plants, which I wished to send 

 to England, my experiments have been unsuccessful. Some- 

 times the whole have arrived in good order, in the river 

 Thames, yet I have suffered the mortification of learning, 

 that, before the requisite formalities of office could be com- 

 plied with, they had perished for want of due attention, at 

 that late period of their voyage. At other times, I have 

 been informed that only a few of my plants had reached 

 St. Helena, and that having been sent on shore, they died of 

 neglect ; when their recovery from a weak or sickly state 

 was the motive for removing them from the ship. Again, I 

 have heard that my splendid list had arrived, but that the 

 plants were all dead, evidently from the neglect of a due 

 supply of water, since, from the appearance of the roots, it was 

 clear that no cause of failure had existed in the original 

 planting of them in the pots. 



My friend Mr. Reeves has informed me, that ninety out 

 of one hundred of the plants which he carried with him to 

 England, three years ago, arrived in good health. He has 

 since, however, in the supplies which he has sent to the 



