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Thefe bottles may be put into a keg, box, or any 

 other veflel, filled with four parts of common 

 fait, two of faltpetre, and one part of fal ammo- 

 niac ; or common fait alone, if the others cannot 

 be procured, in order to keep the feeds cool, 

 and preferve their vegetative power. 



(d) Seeds and nuts, in their pods, may be en- 

 clofed in linen or writing-paper, and put into ca- 

 nifters, earthen-jars, fnuff-boxes, or glafs-bottles; 

 the interftices between the parcels of feeds mould 

 be filled with whole rice, millet, panic, wheat- 

 bran, or ground Indian-corn well dried. To 

 prevent any injury from infects, a little camphor, 

 fulphur, or tobacco, mould be put into the 

 top of each cannifter or veflel, and their covers 

 well fecured, to exclude the admiffion of the 

 external air. 



(e) Seeds, well dried, may be put into a box, 

 not made too clofe, upon alternate layers of mofs, 

 in fuch a manner as to admit the feeds to vege- 

 tate, or moot their fmall tendrils into the mofs. 

 In the voyage the box may be hung up at the roof 

 of the cabin, and when the fhip is at the 

 place of her deftination, the feeds mould be 

 put into pots of mould, or boxes, with a little 

 of the mofs alfo about them, on which they 

 had lain. 



(f) After every other precaution in tranfporting 

 feeds has failed, I have known inftances of their 

 having been brought from diftant parts, even 

 from Botany-Bay, and Norfolk-Ifland, by the 

 circuitous voyage of the Eaft-Indies, in a perfect 

 flate of vegetation, which have been merely 

 wrapped in common brown-paper; and as it is 



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