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the eafieft and perhaps belt method of conveying 

 feeds, it mould never be neglected : American 

 feeds are ufually brought over in this manner. 

 The Chinefe paper is generally employed for 

 feeds from the Eaft-Indies, and is probably as 

 good as our common blotting and brown-paper. 



Seeds preferved after the manner (e), (f), as 

 well as that of (d), and likewife, for further fe- 

 curity, fome of the preceding (a), (b), (c), which 

 have been procured in the Eaft-Indies, may be 

 examined when the fhip arrives at St. Helena; 

 and fome of them, which appear in a ftate of ve- 

 getation, mould be fown in the annexed boxes 

 of earth, between the growing plants, as many 

 forts as poffible ; fome of which may fucceed in 

 cafe of failure of the plants. 



More of the fame feeds may be alfo fown after 

 the fhip has paffed the Tropic of Cancer, near 

 the latitude of thirty degrees north. And if very 

 fmall bits of broken glafs are mixed with the 

 earth, or thrown plentifully over its furface in 

 the boxes, it may prevent mice and rats from 

 burrowing in it, and deftroying the tender roots 

 of the plants and growing feeds. 



In whatever method our feeds have been pre- 

 ferved, it mould be a conftant precaution to fow 

 them as foon as they have been expofed to 

 the external air, otherwife they probably will ne- 

 ver vegetate. 



In order to take up plants or flirubs advan- 

 tageoufly, that are to be tranfported, a mat- 

 tock and a fpade mould be provided ; with the 

 mattock a fmall trench mould be opened round 

 the plant intended to be taken up ; the fpade 

 E 2 mould 



